WIRO sports day with an exciting program

At the WIRO sports day yesterday, active participation and trying things out were very popular with the visitors. With full vigor, they pushed themselves against the tackle dummy at the football stand, tested their throwing power at the handball goal with a speedometer or played wheelchair table tennis. The audience also watched the presentations of the clubs on the stage at the lighthouse with interest.

The American football club Baltic Blue Stars Rostock, which has recently become one of the clubs supported by WIRO, was taking part in the WIRO sports day for the first time. The football stand quickly became a crowd puller. In addition to the tackle dummy, the target throwing with the football and the attack practice with helmet and impact pad were also a hit. Six-year-old Emment from Warnemünde tried out all of the football players' hands-on stations and was delighted that he scored a goal straight away when he was throwing. When the handball players from HC Empor were throwing at the goal next door, he reached a throwing speed of 37 km/h.

The Rostock Police Sports Club (PSV) was not a new club, but it had a new offer at the WIRO Sports Day. The club's inclusion officer, Christian Holz, is planning to set up wheelchair table tennis as a new department in addition to the existing wheelchair basketball. "We want to gradually establish as many sports as possible as inclusive. In addition to basketball, boxing and football offers already exist inclusively, some in cooperation with other providers. "We would like to enable more people with disabilities to join the club and thus make inclusion in sport more and more natural," says Holz.

On stage, goalball players explained their sport, which has been a Paralympic discipline for people with visual impairments since 1976. They had brought a large hard rubber ball with bells inside as a demonstration material.

The 1956 Rostock Olympic Rowing Club brought along a rowing ergometer for testing and reported on its members competing in the Olympic and Paralympic Games in France.

Also represented at the WIRO Sports Day were the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Association for Disabled and Rehabilitation Sports, the basketball players from the Rostock Seawolves, the junior football players from FC Hansa with a mini goal and the volleyball players from SV Warnemünde with a mobile volleyball net. Jörn Anders from WIRO was "completely satisfied" with the positive response to this year's WIRO Sports Day.