West Country athlete in GB Special Olympics team

West Country
Special Olympics
Sport
Wednesday 21 May 2014 at 12:44pm

Special Olympics European Summer Games in Belgium Credit: NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/Belga/Press Association Images

This week a West Country athlete has been named as part of the team selected to represent the country at the 2014 Special Olympics Summer Games.

Daniel Amel-Azizpour, a judo player from Bradley Stoke in Bristol, will be travelling to Belgium for the event in September along with 47 other athletes.

More than 2,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities from 58 European countries will take part in the ten sporting events.