Technical Delegate report - ITTF Para Table Tennis

1 ITTF PTTD. Technical Delegate report Name of Tournament / Championships: Parapan- American Games PTT. American Continental Championships Ranking Factor Applied for : 50. _____. Name of Responsible Federation: Toronto 2015 Organizer Committee _____. Name of Chairman of Organising Committee: _____. Dates of Play: August 2-14, 2015. Name of Technical Delegate : Georgios Seliniotakis GRE. _____. report submitted to ITTF PTT : _____. Accommodation Meals: Organizing Committee used the Paralympic Village to accommodate all players all officials at the same level as Paralympic Games. All procedures are the same as Paralympic Games. The meals serviced in the village and for the people that they don't have time to return back in the village there was soft lunch at the venue. Breakfast and Dinner was in the village.

2 As all knows in the diving area in the village the service is 24 for hours and with plenty difference foods. Venues : The new venue Markham host the Table Tennis tournament of Pan-American and Para Pan Games Toronto 2015. Training site was the High School 200 metres from Venue, inside it was the Classification area. 1. We used 5 tables SAN-EI full accessible for wheelchair players. And 5 tables SAN-Ei for standing players All equipment was SAN EI. The results system works with volunteer, and there was two screens in every playing area. Many times there was problem because there not good visible from spectators. The biggest problem in the tournament and in the information's procedure was that there was not a big screen (video wall) in the venue that we used for results, so we have not enough information for the spectators.

3 Referee's tables: in the middle with good view Results : Is under control of organizing committee as the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Wheelchair storage: There was special area. Meeting room : On the venue. Internet access : Via Wi-Fi Offices : There was offices, for TD, Classifier panel, Referees. Competition days: 8-10 August 2015 Individual Events. 11-13 August 2015 Team Events. Participants : Only for American continent and under the limit of 3 players per class per country, under the selection procedure for ITTF PTT. Many thanks to Nico Verspeelt for his excellent works Officials : TD : Georgios Seliniotakis (GRE). Referee: Silvia Garro (CRC). Deputy Referees: Maria Ferrer (BRA)- Karol Ziduliak (CAN). Classifiers: Juraj Stefak (SVK) Sheng K. Wu (TPE) Sharon Brooks(USA) Zahra Yousefi (IRI) Bahman Zand (IRI).

4 Computer persons: There was under the Panamerikan Information and Result Service. 2. Umpires: 38 (27 IU, 9 NU) Umpires from 14 countries officiate in the Games. There was umpires from : ARG 2, BRA 2, CHI, COL,CRC,CUB,ECU,JAM,MEX,PAR,URU,USA 2, VEN AND CAN 21. Ball boys/girls: Every day approximately 20-25 volunteer were present. They worked very well, during the whole tournament. Meetings : All meeting take held in the venue. Classification: Results : All go well. There were many articles about the tournament in ITTF web site, thanks Ian. There are videos in ITTF official YouTube channel. Medical service: Under the IPC rules there was full covering in the village in the FOP and in training site Mechanical service: There was in the village and under to venue. Ceremonies: Under the IPC regulations.

5 Doping Control : Under the IPC procedure in close cooperation with TD. Evaluation: Accommodations: Very good with high level service. Meal was excellent Transportation: At the begging there was some problems because the organizers used small wheelchair busses. On the way al go well of course with small delay because the system was under the IPC planning and not under the ITTF. Sport equipment - Good - new, ITTF and ITTF PTTD approved. 3. Information: Under Panamerikan Information and Result Service. Referee: Excellent work Deputy referees: Excellent work. Umpires: Without problems. Of course the level of umpiring was not the same as usually for all tournaments around the world. I would like to say congratulation to Denise Perrier and Callum Wright for excellent work. Many thanks Denise, many thanks Callum, many thanks to your volunteers.

6 Georgios Seliniotakis PTT TD. 4.