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About The Games
The Australian Transplant Games are a celebration of life received through organ and tissue donation. They unite all those touched by donation including transplant recipients, donor families, living donors and those waiting for a transplant. Through sport and games, competitors benchmark their renewed health and wellness and say thank you to organ and tissue donors.
The Games provide an opportunity to network with others in similar situations - transplant recipients, those undergoing dialysis treatment, those awaiting transplantation, living donors, family members of deceased donors and supporters. The Australian Transplant Games are Australia’s largest awareness event for organ and tissue donation and demonstrate ‘what a life difference’ transplantation makes.
Importantly the Games promote awareness of organ donation and have resulted in a flow on effect of increased organ donation rates in each year the Games are held.
To be eligible for the Games, competitors must have received a solid organ, tissue or bone marrow transplant, be on dialysis or have cystic fibrosis. Living donors, donor families and supporters - both adults and juniors - are also eligible to participate in selected supporter events.
The 13th Australian Transplant Games will be conducted in Newcastle, NSW from September 29 to October 6 and offer some 24 events.
Athletes are expected to attend from every State in Australia. A number of competitors from overseas will also attend the Games.
In addition to medals awarded in each sporting and recreational event, there is also the Victor Chang Memorial Shield, the Donor Family Shield, the Cup for the Athlete of the Games, the Clifford C Henderson Shields (1 male and 1 female), the Jack Nolan Encouragement Award, the Lorraine McLeod Women’s Tennis award and the Mark Cocks Junior Shield. These awards are presented to individuals who embody the spirit of the Games or individual States achieving the most medal points in each category.
To view the Games schedule, click here
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