News & Announcements

2019 Oct 09 - ICSD News - New ICSD Technical Director on Chess for the 2019 Winter Deaflympics

2019 Oct 05 - Message from the President - ICSD Executive Board was held in Lausanne, Switzerland recently. We have already discussed on many issues during the meeting, and here is the summary in 4 key issues as follows,

2019 Oct 04 - General News - WADA publishes the 2020 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods (List); the 2020 Summary of Major Modifications and Explanatory Notes; and the 2020 Monitoring Program. The List comes into force on 1 January 2020.

2019 Sep 22 - ICSD News - Austria has been confirmed as the host of the 1st World Deaf Youth Table Tennis Championships and 4th World Deaf Table Tennis Championships in Baden, Austria

2019 Aug 12 - ICSD News - Germany has been confirmed as the host of the 5th World Deaf Bowling Championships in Munich

2019 Jul 25 - ICSD News - Results of the 2019 World Deaf Badminton Championships in Chinese Taipei

2019 Jul 09 - Message from the President - All former Presidents of ICSD (CISS) have the same goal in putting the focus on Deaf Athletes who are the most important. We shall continue the same goal.

2019 Jun 21 - Press Releases - The ICSD Executive Board wishes to announce the appointment of the ICSD Vice President of World Sports, Mr. Kang CHEN, as the ICSD Interim President with immediate effect.

2019 Jun 12 - Message from the President -

2019 Jun 11 - ICSD News - Please see the video for the 2019 World Deaf Cycling Championships

2019 Jun 05 - ICSD News - Turkish Deaf Sport Federation (Turkey) has been confirmed as the host of the World Deaf Cycling Championships in Turkey

2019 Jun 05 - ICSD News - Korea Deaf Sport Federation has been confirmed as the host of the 4th World Deaf Football Championships in Changwon on 05 - 20 September 2020.

2019 May 21 - Message from the President - It certainly shows we are not alone in dealing with these important issues and that we have a whole community of international federations for support and advice.

2019 May 04 - ICSD News - Turkish Deaf Sport Federation (Turkey) has been confirmed as the host of the 2nd World Deaf Tennis Championships in Antalya, Turkey

2019 May 04 - Deaflympic News - For the curling competition at the 2019 Winter Deaflympics from 11-20 December 2019 in Madesimo, Italy, ICSD Executive Board has decided to increase the maximum number of teams for both genders from ten (10) to twelve (12).

2019 Apr 30 - ICSD News - The ICSD is seeking for new members - representatives from EDSO (Europe), CADS (Africa) and PANAMDES (Americas) Regions.

2019 Apr 29 - ICSD News - Information on the 2019 World Deaf Cycling Championships in Turkey

2019 Apr 14 - Message from the President - The ICSD Board has been in meetings for the last two days. The meeting with the IOC was an opportunity to follow up on items discussed at our previous meeting. We also agreed to work on strengthening our partnership as per our memorandum of understanding

2019 Apr 05 - General News - A review of the World Anti-Doping Code (Code) and its associated International Standards, as well as compliance and capturing athletes’ views were among the main themes at the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) 15th Annual Symposium held in Lausanne, Swi

2019 Mar 11 - Message from the President - The ICSD Board and I are delighted to advise that the ICSD CEO, Mr Dmitry Rebrov has been appointed by the United Nations to sit on their Committee of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

2019 Mar 03 - ICSD News - Switzerland has been confirmed as the host of the 2nd World Deaf Shooting Championships on 14-20 June 2020. Turkey has been confirmed as the host of the World Deaf Wrestling Championships on 01-06 June 2020.

2019 Mar 01 - ICSD News - DIFA organized and held this football seminar on topical issues of development, which was very positive and informative for all participants.

2019 Feb 21 - ICSD News - Italy has been confirmed as the host of the 4th World Deaf Volleyball Championships

2019 Feb 16 - Deaflympic News - Information on chess for 2019 Winter Deaflympics in Italy

2019 Feb 12 - Message from the President - On the weekend, the ICSD Executive Board met to discuss advice received from the Organising Committee of the Brazil Symposium that due to low numbers of members indicating their intention to participate that they were not progressing with the symposium. I