Author: Transplant Sport
One of Transplant Sports amazing young athletes and Ambassadors for Life will be joining Matt Baker in The Rickshaw Challenge for BBC Children in Need. Matt will be joined by a team of 5 who will take on the relay-style challenge, cycling through their hometowns and passing places which hold a particular significance for them....
Read MoreTransplant Sport is excited to announce that next Summer The European Transplant and Dialysis Sports Games are coming to to the United Kingdom for the first time. OXFORD will play host to the 7 day multisport event. SAVE THE DATES: AUGUST 21st to 28th 2022!
Read MoreTen transplant recipient golfers teed off to take part in the Transplant Sport Golf Tournament on Tuesday 28 November. Held at Sandwell Park Golf Club, West Bromwich, the same venue from the British Transplant Games in Birmingham 2018. Golfers took on the eighteen-hole course in cold, wet and windy conditions, playing to win a...
Read MoreThis weekend saw the return of Transplant Sport Satellite events, with 42 people taking part in a five team Football Tournament in Bicester, Oxford. Teams from across the UK played in a round robin 6 a-side format made up of ten matches. Guys and Wales played in the 3rd and 4th matched, with Oxford and...
Read MoreAs COVID-19 hibernation ends it is time to step out into a world of fitness. COVID-19 lockdown has been hard for most communities across the world. For the transplant community it has been doubly hard with transplant recipients recognised as one of the vulnerable groups facing additional complications from COVID-19. The World Transplant Games Federation...
Read MoreI hope you have all been inspired by the Summer of Sport 2021; from the build-up and tension of the Euros 2020 through the classical nail-biting finals at Wimbledon and now the daily dose of Tokyo 2020. Sport is back, I know it has been a really tough 18 months for you all and your...
Read MoreToday Monday 14th June games organisers have announced that the Westfield Health British Transplant Games will be taking place in venues across Leeds from 28th – 31st July in 2022. The flagship event of Transplant Sport will be staged with renewed support from Westfield Health as well as local partners including Leeds City Council, Leeds...
Read MoreTri4Tim has raised over £11,000 from generous donations and the sale of branded merchandise. Tim Jenkins passed away in December 2020 after a short battle with cancer. Tri4Tim was setup by his wife, Maddy, after he told her that “we all need to do more to help,” whilst bravely fighting his own illness,...
Read MoreHow will you 5K? The option is yours! The options are endless! The 5K AnyWay is a virtual race with with the hope of virtually uniting transplant survivors, donors, their families and supporters from around the world. Collectively, we will virtually run around the globe together. Make it official and register for the 5K AnyWay...
Read MoreToday (9 March 2021) Transplant Sport has announced that the Westfield Health British Transplant Games due to take place in Leeds this summer will be postponed until 2022 due to ongoing challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic. Originally due to be held in venues across the city from 5-8 August 2021, the British...
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