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image by Zoltan Horvath, 13 November 2013
The International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) is an
international sports organization that governs sports for athletes with a
disability. IWAS is headquartered at Stoke Mandeville Stadium in Stoke
Mandeville, Buckinghamshire, and is a registered charity. IWAS is the
international governing body for wheelchair fencing and until 2010 for
wheelchair rugby (now governed by IWRF). IWAS also governs other sport
competitions for athletes who use a wheelchair and athletes with amputations,
including athletics, cue sports, and lawn bowls. IWAS was formed in 2005 after it was decided that the ISMWSF and ISOD should
merge to continue to help grow the Paralympic movement – and Para sport more generally.
Zoltan Horvath, 13 November 2013 and Esteban Rivera, 22 January 2021
The protocol manual for the London 2012 Olympics
(Flags and Anthems Manual London 2012 [loc12])
provides recommendations for flag designs. Each
international federation and international
paralympics federation was sent an image of the flag, including the PMS
shades, for their approval by LOCOG. Once this was obtained, LOCOG produced a 60
x 90 cm version of the flag for further approval. So, while these specs may not
be the official version of each flag, they are certainly what the
international federation and
international paralympics federation believed the flag to be.
Ian Sumner, 10 October 2012
Last year Ian Sumner made some scans from the flag manual for the London
2012 Olympics (Flags and Anthems Manual London 2012) which provides
recommendations for flag designs of international sporting federations.
For International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation - IWAS: PMS 2758
blue, PMS 116 yellow.
Zoltan Horvath, 13 November 2013