Deaf Sports Leader/Founder – William Baird

Hugely influential in forming the Federation of London Deaf Sports (1919) and the British Deaf Amateur Sports Association (1931)
Led Great Britain to the 1^st Deaf International Games, Paris 1924
Represented Great Britain at Shooting, Nuremburg 1931
Organised single handed the 4^th CISS International Deaf Games, London 1935
Awarded the CISS Silver Medal in 1949 and CISS Honorary Member in 1955
The most prominent sportsman in deaf sports history, worthy of a blue plague to mark his phenomenal efforts

Deaf Sports Personality of the Year to help deaf athletes get the recognition they deserve!