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20-23 September

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INTERVIEW: Rebecca Murray (USA) | 2014 IWBF Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championships
Wheelchair Basketball

Victories in Pool A for USA, Netherlands and France on the first day of competition of the women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championships as Germany, Great Britain and Canada claim Pool B wins.

Bosnia and China men's sitting volleyball teams
Sitting Volleyball

Pool winners both lost in their first round of knockout matches

Russia-Brazil sitting volleyball
Sitting Volleyball

The 2014 Sitting Volleyball World Championships in Elblag, Poland, are seeing new initiatives and technology used to enhance the game.

Richard Whitehead
Boccia

Five great para-sport events will be live streamed this weekend so do not miss any of the action.

China women's sitting volleyball team
Sitting Volleyball

Friday's semi-finals World ParaVolley Sitting Volleyball World Championships conclude with wins for USA and China in the women's competition, whilst Brazil and Bosnia and Herzegovina make the men's final.

Women and men in dress and suit both hold an award and smile to the camera
Athletics

Over 30 of Swansea's young ambassadors have signed up to become volunteers at the IPC Athletics European Championships being held in the city in August.

Three swimmers in their team dresses on the podium wearing medals, putting their arms around each other
Swimming

Federico Morlacchi will head to the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships with one thing on his mind - beating double Paralympic champion Tamas Sors.

Tracey Ferguson
Wheelchair Basketball

Canadian is looking to benefit from playing on home soil in the upcoming 2014 Women’s World Wheelchair Basketball Championships on 20-28 June

Romain Noble
Wheelchair Fencing

When they took to the piste in Strasbourg, France, the top-ranked wheelchair fencers did not disappoint.

Bosnia men's sitting volleyball team
Sitting Volleyball

Paralympic champions Bosnia & Herzegovina, China, Iran and Russia remain unbeaten in the men's Sitting Volleyball World Championships in Poland.

UNIQLO and the International Tennis Federation have signed a three-year sponsorship agreement for the ITF’s major wheelchair tennis properties.
Wheelchair Tennis

UNIQLO and the International Tennis Federation (ITF) jointly announced that they have signed a three-year sponsorship agreement for the ITF’s major wheelchair tennis properties.

Women in wheelchair smiling, poses surrounded by two men in suits who perch next to he
Germany

To mark Germany’s National Diversity Day (3 June), Allianz invited students with an impairment from various universities to job shadow executive managers at Allianz SE in Munich.

Markus Rehm, single leg amputee extends his legs over the long jump pit
Athletics

Around 570 athletes from 34 countries will be compete in Berlin over three days of thrilling competition.

Walid Ktila
Athletics

Mixed fortunues for Tunisian athletes on home soil at seventh IPC Athletics Grand Prix of the season.

A stunning view of Rio from Sugar Loaf Mountain
Rio 2016

Win a trip of a lifetime for two to Rio 2016 as part of the IPC’s 25th anniversary celebrations this September

Blod women in orange jersey performing a long jump
Athletics

The long jump world champion is hoping to recapture the form that won her a world title last year when she lines up against Britain’s Stef Reid.

Team of a camera man and a women holding a microphone stand opposite of a man in sport dress. They seem to be preparing an interview. Background: A stage with a wheelchair on it
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

The Equal Halves project being run by the Trinidad and Tobago Paralympic Committee, and funded by the Agitos Foundation, has identified athletes, trained coaches and impacted thousands of people through in the last six months.

Sitting volleyball
Sitting Volleyball

World ParaVolley held its biennial General Assembly in Elblag, Poland on 12 June 2014 in the same city that is staging the 2014 World ParaVolley Sitting Volleyball World Championships for men and women.

Delegates attending the Incheon 2014 Chef de Mission seminar take a tour of one of the venues.
Republic of Korea

Asian Paralympic Committee express satisfcation ahead of October's Incheon 2014 Asian Para Games.

Justin Eveson
Wheelchair Basketball

The Australian Rollers men’s national wheelchair basketball team have named their final 12 players who will represent Australia at the 2014 IWBF World Championships in South Korea.