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![[International Blind Sports Federation]](../images/i/int@ibsa.gif) 
 
image Zoltan Horvath, 13 November 2013
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The International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) is the international 
federation for several sports for people with a visual impairment, including 
three Paralympic sports (Five-a-side football, Goalball and Judo), Powerlifting, 
Ten-pin bowling, Nine-pin bowling, Torball, Athletics, Alpine skiing, Biathlon, 
Swimming, Shooting, Archery, Showdown, Nordic skiing, and Cycling. It was 
founded 1981 in Paris, France. IBSA's mission is to promote the full integration 
of blind and partially sighted people in society through sport and to encourage 
people with a visual impairment to take up and practise sports. IBSA is a full 
and founding member of the 
International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
Zoltan Horvath, 13 November 2013
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 Blind Sports Federation - IBSF: PMS 326 blue, PMS 021 orange. 
Zoltan Horvath, 13 November 2013
![[IFDS flag]](../images/i/int@ibsa_v.gif) 
 
image by Zoltan Horvath, 13 November 2013
![[International Blind Sports Federation]](../images/i/i@blind.gif) 
 
image António Martins, 22 March 2003
Flag, Banner and Signal flag of the International Blind Sports 
Federation.
Dov Gutterman, 23 September, 2002