Spanish Federation of Sports for the Blind

As a result of the increase in participation and interest in sport for people with physical disabilities during the late 1960s, then president of the Spanish Olympic Committee Juan Antonio Samaranch tasked Guillermo Cabezas to create the Spanish Sports Federation for the Physically Disabled (FEDDF) in 1968.

It officially stopped governing blind sport in Spain following the 1994 World Championships in Berlin.

[10] Based in Madrid,[3] FEDC is one of five disability sport organizations that belongs to the Spanish Paralympic Committee.

[13] As of December 2013[update], Ángel Luis Gómez Blázquez is the President of the federation, having been elected in June 2011.

[2] In 2013, the organization had 1,500 licensed vision impaired sportspeople competing in athletics, swimming, judo, chess, futsal, goalball, mountaineering, skiing and sport shooting.