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Disability Sport in Lithuania

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The chapter provides an overview of the disability sport system and sport participation by people with disabilities in Lithuania. Lithuania laws addressing the governmental, intermediate, non-governmental and secondary agents were analysed in order to present organization of disability sport in Lithuania at the national, regional and local level. In the chapter the data from the Lithuanian disability sports organizations, disability sports clubs and schools’ reports on national and local levels were presented through sport participation and barriers for participation.

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  1. Department of Health Promotion and Rehabilitation, Lithuanian Sports University, Kaunas, Lithuania

    Jurate Pozeriene

  2. Department of Coaching Science, Lithuanian Sports University, Kaunas, Lithuania

    Diana Reklaitiene

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Pozeriene, J., Reklaitiene, D. (2023). Disability Sport in Lithuania. In: van Lindert, C., Scheerder, J., Brittain, I. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Disability Sport in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21759-3_18

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