2012 BRITISH TRANSPLANT GAMES

The 2012 British Transplant Games are to be held in Medway, Kent on Thursday 23rd to Sunday 26th August 2012 (inc).
If anyone is interested in joining the team, then please get in touch with Betty Raynor using details on the contacts page.

TRANSPLANT GAMES

The British Transplant Games are organised under the auspices of Transplant Sport UK (TSUK). They are staged annually in host cities around the UK, with selection bi-annually for the World Transplant Games.

The competitors are adults and children aged between 5 - 70+ who are all recipients of a life saving organ transplant, be it heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas or bone marrow.

This event is a celebration - all athletes have won the race for life and competing to win a medal is a bonus!

Aims of the event...

• to demonstrate to the public the benefits of organ transplantation, hopefully helping the thousands of patients waiting for organ transplants
• to encourage transplantees to live life to the full with exercise and social interaction
• to promote awareness of the desperate need for more organ donors, without who, many of the athletes would not be alive to compete
  
  

SHEFFIELD TRANSPLANT TEAM

Athletes from Sheffield regularly take part in both the British and World Transplant Games. There has been a Sheffield Transplant Team attending the British Transplant Games for at least the past twenty-five years!

People wishing to join the Sheffield Transplant Team must be a member of SAKA and also must be a member of Transplant Sport UK (TSUK) before entering the games.