Spanish Federation of Sports for the Deaf

Spanish Federation of Sports for the Deaf (Spanish: Federación Española de Deportes para Sordos (FEDS)) is the national governing body for deaf sports in Spain.

Based in Madrid and created in 1993, they are one of five disability sport organizations that are members of the Spanish Paralympic Committee.

[9] For competition purposes in events organized by FEDS, sportspeople must have hearing loss of at least 55 decibels.

[12] Marcos Anavi Benavideste was the group's first president, a position he would stay in for ten years.

[13] As a result of the increase in participation and interest in the disability during the late 1960s, then president of the Spanish Olympic Committee Juan Antonio Samaranch charged Guillermo Cabezas to create the Spanish Sports Federation for the Physically Disabled.