VISTA 2017 - News

Powerlifting

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.

Wheelchair Basketball

Eight wheelchair basketball teams compete for European glory in Zaragoza, Spain.

Athletics

The 2014 para-athletics season is slowly drawing to a close, so here is recap of 10 things we learned this year.

Rwanda

A group of coordinators from African countries have reported on how they have developed athletes for national teams.

Blind Football

The game uses a special ball with a bell inside that makes a noise as it moves to guide the players. Each team also has a guide behind the opponent’s goal to direct the players when they shoot.

Wheelchair Rugby

Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Chile all qualify for next year’s Parapan American Games

London 2012

On 5 September 2012, 21 years after he last raced there in Formula 3000, a laughing Alex Zanardi hoisted his handcycle aloft at Brands Hatch and punched the air after winning double gold at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

Wheelchair Tennis

Japanese world number ones will be aiming for title success at Flushing Meadows

Athletics

Two races – the men’s 200m T44 and women’s 400m T34-54 – will take place at the final Diamond League meeting of the year.

Table Tennis

German Thomas Weirkert succeeds Canadian Adham Sharara who has taken up his new role as ITTF President

Table Tennis

The Chinese class 9 player has had a tough season, but hopes to make a comeback at the 2014 ITTF Para-Table Tennis World Championships in Beijing.

Sitting Volleyball

The Paralympic Movement is filled with inspirational and compelling stories of triumph over adversity, but there are few stories as awe-inspiring as the Rwandan sitting volleyball team’s formation and qualification for London 2012.

London 2012

November’s event will feature 20 of the world’s best wheelchair tennis players.

Wheelchair Rugby

After a bumper month of sport in August, the nominations will be split into three categories beginning with Best Male.

Meetings took place across six days to review version one of the IPC Classification Code.

Athens 2004

When US swimmer Trischa Zorn won her 55th and final Paralympic medal at the Athens 2004 Games, she cemented her place in the record books as the most decorated Paralympian in history.

It was not until 2007 that the first universal code regarding classification was published for the benefit of the Paralympic Movement.

Cycling

Of the six women’s world titles up for grabs on Sunday US and British women won five of them.

Wheelchair Tennis

The French defending champion believe any of the top wheelchair tennis players can win the US Open title which starts on Thursday.

Sweden

Israelsson elected chair of the Swedish Organisation for the Disabled and Swedish Paralympic Committee at an extraordinary meeting