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New Zealand put 21 newcomers on para-swimming pathways
The Agitos Foundation’s Grant Support Programme backed this year’s Talent Identification Camp in New Zealand.
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IPC Athletics launches new website design
The latest website development ensures the sport has the opportunity to showcase its own identity as the largest para-sport in the world.
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Kunieda, Kamiji and Sithole lift Japan Open titles
Japan’s wheelchair tennis players showcased their top talent ahead of next month’s Roland Garros event.
![Marcel Hug powers to victory in the 2014 IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Nottwil, Switzerland.](/sites/default/files/images/140517181239088_IPC_ATH_GP_NOTTWILL_20140516_LP_0264_WEB_0.jpg)
Hug makes it three from three against Weir in Nottwil
On a thrilling day of athletics, Hug beat Weir twice whilst elsewhere there were five world records brokem at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix.
![Belgium's Marieke Vervoort was in great form in her comeback in Nottwil after four months out injured.](/sites/default/files/images/140517114752778_IPC_ATH_GP_NOTTWILL_20140516_LP_0439_WEB_0.jpg)
Vervoort marks comeback with European record in Nottwil
After being told she would never race again, the 35-year-old Paralympic champion broke the 16-year-old European record.
![On the left, a wheelchair basketball player looks to pass the ball. On the right is typed information about the 2014 Women's Wheelchair Basketball World Championships.](/sites/default/files/images/140516105055085_9090727651_92994c4550_o_0.jpg)
Media accreditation opens for Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Worlds
For the first time since 1994, the IWBF Women’s Wheelchair Basketball World Championships will be a separate event from the men’s Championships.
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Grand Prix power session to feature series of rivalries
The IPC Athletics Grand Prix moves to Nottwil, Switzerland, for the first European leg of the series, headlined by the Saturday evening session.
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Chuck Aoki: Should the US ratify the UN Convention?
The wheelchair rugby player blogs about the first steps in changing perceptions in America about people with an impairment.
![Great Britain's Hannah Cockroft on her way to a new 200m T34 world record in Nottwil, Switzerland in May 2014.](/sites/default/files/images/140517094609717_IPC_ATH_GP_NOTTWILL_20140516_LP_0418_WEB_0.jpg)
Cockcroft smashes 200m world record in Nottwil
First day of IPC Athletics Grand Prix also saw Marcel Hug beat David Weir over 10,000m
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Nottwil Grand Prix to be family affair for Manuela Schaer
The T54 wheelchair racer will compete in front of a familiar crowd in the fifth stop on the 2014 IPC Athletics Grand Prix.
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Van Rhijn hints at new horizons in Nottwil
The Netherlands’ superstar world and Paralympic champion sprinter will compete over 400m at the 2014 IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Switzerland.
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IPC encouraged by Rio 2016 progress
Two day project review in Rio concludes as IPC Vice President Andrew Parsons is appointed Chair of Rio 2016 Paralympic Integration Committee
![Giant 2.3m by 2.5m horse hoof prints created in the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel by French artist and sand sculptor Christophe Dumont mark 100 days to the start of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.](/sites/default/files/images/140515091522005_100%2BDTG%2BNormandy%2BMont-Saint-Michel_0.jpg)
FEI marks 100 days to World Equestrian Games
Giant hoof prints on Normandy beach have marked the milestone ahead of the biggest para-equestrian event of the year.
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FEI launches Photo Grand Prix to find global photography talent
Do you have what it takes to be a top equestrian photographer?
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Kevin Rempel: Training with a purpose
The Canadian ice sledge hockey Paralympic bronze medallist shares some of his latest training tips for the next Paralympic cycle.
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Allianz becomes first global partner of IPC Athletics
Allianz and Paralympic Movement strengthen their ties
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FIBT becomes newest IPC recognised IF
Bobsleigh and skeleton have been recognised by the IPC and supported by the Paralympic Family.
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Boris Johnson announces 2015 World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge
The international wheelchair rugby tournament at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will be a legacy of the London 2012 Games.
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Modin loses guide as he tries to keep pace with McKeever
After two successful Paralympics, Swedish Nordic skier Zebastian Modin is on the hunt for a new guide.
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‘Legacy’ and ‘quality’ subjects of Glasgow 2015 visit
IPC Swimming carried out a site visit to Glasgow, Great Britain, which will play host to the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships.