Michael Barredo
{{Short description|Filipino sports executive}}
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| office = 5th President of the International Blind Sports Federation
| term_start = June 2005
| term_end = August 2013
| predecessor = Enrique Perrez
| successor = Jannie Hammershoi
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| office1 = 1st President of the Paralympic Committee of the Philippines
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| spouse = Barbara Barredo
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Michael I. Barredo{{cite web |title=Barredo, Michael I. |date=September 18, 2015 |url=https://www.dlsaa.com/honors-and-awards/awardees/barredo-michael-i |publisher=De La Salle Alumni Association |access-date=2 September 2021}} is a Filipino sports executive who has served as the 5th president of the International Blind Sports Federation and the founding president of the Paralympic Committee of the Philippines.
Career
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File:PPC Pres Barredo congratulates Lopez and Severino.jpg (center) who won gold medals at the 2018 Asian Para Games]]
Mike Barredo, a blind man himself, organized the Philippine Sports Association for the Differently Abled (PhilSPADA) in 1997, which became the National Paralympic Committee for the Philippines.{{cite news |last1=Henson |first1=Joaquin |title=No resting on laurels |url=https://www.philstar.com/sports/2013/11/20/1258793/no-resting-laurels |access-date=2 September 2021 |work=The Philippine Star |date=20 November 2013}} He is part of the organization, which was later renamed as the Paralympic Committee of the Philippines (PPC), as its founding president.{{cite web |title=Former IBSA President Michael Barredo to receive Paralympic Award |url=https://ibsasport.org/former-ibsa-president-michael-barredo-to-receive-paralympic-award/ |website=IBSA International Blind Sports Federation |access-date=2 September 2021 |date=4 November 2013}}{{cite news |last1=Leyba |first1=Olmin |title=Int'l Paralympic cites PhilSPADA chair |url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/12/17/13/intl-paralympic-cites-philspada-chair |access-date=2 September 2021 |work=ABS-CBN News |publisher=The Philippine Star |date=17 December 2013 |language=en}}
As president of the disabled sports organization he campaigned for the amendment of National Athletes, Coaches and Trainers Benefits and Incentives Act of 2001 (Republic Act 9064) so that the government be legally obliged to give incentives to athletes competing in disabled sports, especially the Paralympics. The 2001 legislation was replaced by the National Athletes and Coaches Benefits and Incentives Act of 2015 (Republic Act. 10699) which recognized para-athletes as national athletes, although incentives for para-athletes amount to half of incentives for their abled-bodied counterparts. Barredo failed in his lobbying efforts to have mandatory incentives for eligible para-athletes be equal to their non-disabled counterparts.{{cite news |title=Filipino Paralympians' fight for recognition gains steam |url=https://cnnphilippines.com/sports/2021/8/20/Filipino-Paralympians-fight-for-recognition.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820090743/https://cnnphilippines.com/sports/2021/8/20/Filipino-Paralympians-fight-for-recognition.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 20, 2021 |access-date=2 September 2021 |work=CNN Philippines |date=21 August 2021 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Henson |first1=Joaquin M. |title=Barredo's inspiring story |url=https://www.philstar.com/sports/2016/12/29/1657741/barredos-inspiring-story |access-date=2 September 2021 |work=The Philippine Star |date=29 December 2016}}
He has also overseen the participation of the Philippines in six editions of the Summer Paralympics.{{cite news |title=Barredo laments pandemic's impact on Pinoy Paralympians |url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/08/31/21/barredo-laments-pandemics-impact-on-pinoy-paralympians |access-date=2 September 2021 |work=ABS-CBN News |date=31 August 2021}}
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Barredo was the 5th president of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) from June 2005 to August 2013. In November 2013, he was conferred the Paralympic Order for his former role with IBSA.{{cite news |last1=Butler |first1=Nick |title=Vergeer and Weir gain top honours at IPC Sport Awards |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1017110/vergeer-and-weir-gain-top-honours-at-ipc-sport-awards |access-date=2 September 2021 |work=Inside the Games |publisher=Dunsar Media |date=23 November 2013}}{{cite web |title=The Paralympic Order |url=https://www.paralympic.org/paralympic-order |website=International Paralympic Committee |access-date=2 September 2021 |language=en}} He is the first Filipino to receive the distinction.
He has also served as a commissioner of the Philippine Sports Commission under the chairmanship of Eric Buhain in the early 2000s prior to becoming IBSA president in 2005.{{cite news |last1=Terrado |first1=Reuben |title=Butch Ramirez lauds Mike Barredo for award from Asian Paralympic Committee |url=https://www.spin.ph/multisport/para-sports/philspada-president-mike-barredo-asian-order-asian-paralympic-committee |access-date=2 September 2021 |work=Sports Interactive Network Philippines |date=13 December 2016}} He was also a founding board member of the Asean Para Sports Federation and a founding board member and vice president of the Asian Paralympic Council (now the Asian Paralympic Committee).
Personal life
Barredo is blind, having loss his eyesight in a vehicular accident in 1979. Prior to the accident, he was a student-athlete of De La Salle University playing in football, volleyball, basketball, track and field and chess. He is married to Barbara Barredo with whom he has two sons. Outside of sport, he is a businessman who founded his own insurance agency, a trucking business, and has been an executive of a car dealership.
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