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20-23 September

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Anna Schaffelhuber, Germany celebrates her gold medal in the women's super-G
PyeongChang 2018

The five-time Paralympic champion sets her sight on the next Paralympic Winter Games.

Maksym Nikolenko
Table Tennis

The Ukrainian para-table tennis star was in great form at the first major tournament of the year winning two gold medals.

Lucas Sithole
Wheelchair Tennis

After losing in the semi-finals in both the singles and doubles in 2014, the South African wheelchair tennis ace is hoping for better this time round.

Dave Malone at the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games
Summer Sports

The former swimmer takes over from Nancy Chillingworth

French wheelchair tennis players at the award ceremony
Wheelchair Tennis

The two nations progress to the women’s elite group of wheelchair tennis.

The first IPC Athletics Education programme to be run in Spanish took place in Ecuador at the end of March with 30 individuals receiving key training in officiating.
Athletics

Supported by the Agitos Foundation, the course trained 30 officials

Michal Vapenka
Para Ice Hockey

Netminders Michal Vapenka and Jan Matousek will form the basis of a new approach at the 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships A-Pool from 26 April.

An ice sledge hockey player is interviewed live on TV
Para Ice Hockey

Sochi 2014 gold medallist Adam Page helped to spread the word about the up-coming IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships A-Pool in Buffalo, New York, USA.

A night time shot of a river bank with stunning buildings in the background.
VISTA

Canadian Jennifer Mactavish will receive the award at October’s VISTA 2015 conference in recognition of her role in the successful re-inclusion of intellectually impaired athletes into the Paralympic Games.

2011 Inas Games

This weekend’s event will take place in Sheffield, Great Britain.

Powerlifting at the Parapans
Powerlifting

The Argentinian powerlifting team is training hard for the 2015 IPC Powerlifting Americas Open Championships, a key step towards the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games.

The Alpensia Resort is seen from above on February 10, 2015 in the mountain cluster of Pyeongchang, South Korea.
PyeongChang 2018

The Korea International Co-operation Agency will support the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

Melissa Tapper
Table Tennis

Players from Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand and Samoa will compete in the event between 10-12 April

Blindfolded women with guide running in a relay
Athletics

The Chinese Asian Para Games champion will be competing at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Beijing and hopes to challenge her Brazilian rival later this year.

The TO2015 Parapan American Games Torch Relay will begin on 3 August 2015.
America

For the first time two separate flames will be lit in special ceremonies on 3 August which will then unite on 6 August

A picture of a girl swimming
Swimming

Olivier van der Voort and Lisette Teunissen are amongst those who set six world records at the Swim Cup Eindhoven in the Netherlands from 2-5 April.

New Zealand's Corey Peters won his first world titles at the 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships.
Alpine Skiing

New world champion Corey Peters and Paralympic gold medallist Adam hall are expected to compete on home snow in New Zealand.

Motoi Oyama, President, CEO and Representative Director of ASICS; Yoshiro Mori, Tokyo 2020 President
Tokyo 2020

The corporation has joined in the category of “Sporting Goods" (Sports Apparel & Sports Equipment).

The number of VI classifiers increased by 50 per cent in April 2015 thanks to a training course in Athens, Greece.

Concluding a course hosted in Athens, Greece, the number of international visual impairment classifiers has now increased by 50 per cent.

Samsung Group became a domestic sponsor of PyeongChang 2018 in April 2015.
PyeongChang 2018

The sponsor package is worth KRW 100 billion.