Algiers 2018 - News

Paralympic and world champion Lei Liu is the current Asian world No.1 and heads to the 2014 Asian Para Games with a world record in his sights.

Over 25,000 volunteers are needed to fill roles for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Six Paralympic sports to have dedicated test events between August 2015 and May 2016 in the lead-up to the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Athlete tested positive during an out of competition test prior to the IPC 2014 Powerlifitng World Championships.

Sir Philip Craven's comments come after Glasgow 2014 staged the biggest ever Commonwealth Games para-sport programme.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that two powerlifters – United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Rashed Hassan Ahmed and Kazakhstan’s Oleg Gridassov - have been suspended and fined for separate Anti-Doping Rule violations committed at the 2014 IPC Powerlifting World Championships in Dubai, UAE.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is considering a range of actions to reduce the number of anti-doping violations in para-sport, particularly in powerlifting.

Mexican Paralympic champion Amalia Perez was injured for most of 2013 but secured silver behind rival Fatma Omar at the 2014 IPC Powerlifting World Championships and has vowed to be back in gold medal-winning form by Rio 2016.

Around 300 para-athletes from 20 countries will compete in 22 medal events across five sports, the most ever.

After a busy year for para-sport, the IPC has published its achievements from 2013.

Nearly 40 athletes from 15 countries will compete in four medal events at the Commonwealth Games.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that Iranian world silver medallist powerlifter Roohallah Rostami has been suspended and fined for an Anti-Doping Rule violation.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that two powerlifters – Russia’s Ilfat Mukhatarov and Colombia’s Ivan Palacios - have been suspended and fined for separate Anti-Doping Rule violations.

Great Britain’s Ali Jawad arrived at the 2014 IPC Powerlifting World Championships with the aim of casting aside disappointment which started at Beijing 2008.

Speaking at the 6th International Working Group (IWG) World Conference on Women and Sport in Helsinki, Finland, the IPC President outlined the Paralympic Movement's long term ambition.

The reigning World Champion reveals it was intervention by his coaches which prevented him from going further at the 2014 IPC Powerlifting World Championships, but that he will go for 300kg at the Incheon 2014 Asian Para Games.

Find how a revised World Anti-Doping Code for athletes will be implemented starting in 2015.

Nominees include: Ali Jawad, Tatyana McFadden, Sherif Othman, Sarah Storey and Ingrid Thunem.

An Agitos Foundation supported project, a first of its kind in the country, trains powerlifting referees and classifiers with the aim of holding national championships in the future.

IPC Powerlifting's Raise the Bar anti-doping campaign reached hundreds of lifters from all over the world, climaxing at the 2014 IPC Powerlifting World Championships.