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Eligibility

 

Eligibility Criteria for Australian Transplant Games

Background


One of the main objectives of the Transplant Games is that they are intended to demonstrate that people with transplants are not prevented from going on to lead a “normal” life and further that by striving to compete in these events allows both recipients and donors to lead a healthy and motivated lifestyle. By participating in the games, recipients also demonstrate their gratitude to the donor whose organ or tissue they have received.

In the past those from the following backgrounds have been allowed to compete in the one general pool:

  • Solid Organ recipients
  • Those with cystic fibrosis
  • Those awaiting transplantation
  • Dialysis patients
  • Corneal recipients
  • Bone marrow and stem cell recipients

This eligibility status is separate from the World games criteria which only allows:

  • Solid Organ recipients
  • Bone marrow and stem cell recipients

The Board of Transplant Australia has reviewed the purpose of the games and the need to better recognize the generous contribution of all donors, organs and tissues. Tissue donors for transplant rightly deserve to be recognized alongside solid organ donors as both lead to improving and saving the lives of Australians.

Opening the Games for recipients of tissues has been agreed under the following basis.

Qualification - participants having undergone invasive treatment of a non-cosmetic nature requiring organs and/or tissues (excluding blood) donated by another person.

Organ Donor extraction Small intestine
Corneal Liver
Bone Marrow Heart
Heart Valve (human origin) Lung
Bone grafts (human origin)    Kidney
Tendon Pancreas
Cartilage Pancreatic Islets
Small intestine

 

It has also been agreed that in sports where there is to be a division between ‘organs’ and ‘tissues’ it will be based along the lines of eligibility for the World Games. Ie: 

World Games Division (labelled W)

Solid Organ recipients Bone marrow and stem cell recipients

Non-World Games Division (labelled A)

Tissue recipients (including corneas)Those awaiting transplantation
 

Those with cystic fibrosis

Dialysis patients

The Competition will be divided on the following basis


Exertion Sports – two divisions competing together


Swimming 

Athletics

Cycling

Rowing (Not contested in 2010)

                                                                       
3km & 5km Run 

Kayaking (Not contested in 2010)


There will be two divisions however all participants will compete together with the first solid organ person across the line winning that division’s gold medal and the first tissue or other division person across the line winning that division’s gold medal.

This allows participants to compete in the same races without major alteration. This works well for the following ‘exertion’ sports as they can compete in the same races without major alterations

Non-exertion Sports – everyone in the same pool competing against each other regardless of transplant


 

Lawn Bowls     
                         
Archey
                                        
Golf  
                                           
Petanque

Eight Ball


Darts

Scrabble

Ten Pin Bowling


Exertion sports with a draw – everyone in the same pool but splitting into two divisions pending numbers of entrants in both divisions


Table Tennis
                        
Tennis
                                    
Squash

Badminton

Team sports

Volleyball

Softball (Slow Pitch)

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Maximum of two tissue recipients on court for team of six players on court at any one time and maximum 3 tissue recipients for team

of ten people on the court at any time (per state team).






 

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