History

Following a consultation process with the sports of Athletics, Swimming, Football and Gymnastics, it was agreed to support the formation of a new Union to co-ordinate the programme for the existing international sports organisations.

This decision was taken on Wednesday May 16th 2012 in Terceira, The Portuguese Azores and thus SU-DS was born.

It was decided that each sport would retain its autonomous structure as an International Sports Federation. In this way SU-DS would be developing along the lines recommended by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) for the governance of sport for disabled people.

In 2016 all the Organisations came together for the first World Trisome Games for all the sports registered.

SU-DS follows the Olympic and Paralympic ideal – its Championships recognises 1 World Champion