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Busan City to receive TAFISA Jürgen Palm award

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Busan City has dispatched a city delegation led by the Deputy Mayor for Political Affairs, Jeong Lak-hyeong, to the 21^st TAFISA World Congress, which is taking place in Taipei from September 3.

 

At the opening ceremony, the Deputy Mayor will receive the *TAFISA Jürgen Palm Award 2009 on behalf of Busan Mayor, Hur Nam-sik to honor the city’s significant contribution to the field of International Sport for All and Physical Activity(SAPA) by successfully hosting the 4th Busan TAFISA World Sport for All Games in 2008, which were the biggest TAFISA Games ever. About 2,500 athletes from 101 countries, as well as 30 IOC members and 600 international sports personalities participated at the event. During the Games in 2008, the “Busan Declaration”, the main result of the 6^th World Forum on Sport, Education and Culture, was formally adopted and conveyed to countries around the world to preserve and promote traditional sports and games as a traditional cultural heritage by UNESCO and TAFISA.

As a result of these events, the city’s international stature has been enhanced and this has laid the foundation for Busan to become an international sports city. 

 

The biennial general meeting, the TAFISA World Congress, is being held from September 3 - 7, 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan with about 200 participants from member nations and organizations related to international sports, including NOCs, the IOC and UNESCO under the theme ‘Exploring New Participants in Sport For All - Aiming for an Active World’.

 

 

*The award is named after and in tribute of the founder of TAFISA, Jürgen Palm.