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4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Allianz Fact of the week Alpine Skiing speed

Top speeds can reach up to 105 km/h!

Andrea Rothfuss
Alpine Skiing

Rothfuss, Nolte, Redkozubov and Bugaev all finish on top of the podium at the IPC Alpine Skiing Europa Cup.

Ukrainian Ihor Reptyukh skis at Sochi 2014 followed closely by a competitor
Cross-Country Skiing

Ukrainian Nordic skier will be competing across biathlon and cross-country at the Cable 2015 Worlds and offers his advice on how to stay competitive.

Jade Jones of Great Britain looks on after her race during the Visa London Disability Athletics Challenge LOCOG Test Event for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Athletics

Sports Fest will take place at Durham University, Great Britain on Thursday 5 March.

USA wheelchair tennis
Wheelchair Tennis

The money will be invested in 20 grassroots wheelchair tennis programmes across the USA.

Slovakia's Miroslav Haraus competes in super-combined at Sochi 2014.
Alpine Skiing

There was also an upset in the men’s standing races, as Russia’s Alexander Alyabyev took victory after Paralympic champion Alexey Bugaev failed to finish.

Vanessa Low long jump 2014 Athletics Grand Prix Berlin
Athletics

The European champion and World Championships bronze medallist talks about her move to the USA and what challenges she has faced in the past year.

Ice sledge hockey Canada
Para Ice Hockey

Ken Babey, Ron Choules and Herve Lord make up the coaching team that will take Canada to the 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships.

Michelle Salt, Canada flys by a gate in the first ever Women's Para Snowboarding Cross in the Winter Paralympic Games
Snowboard

John Leslie and Michelle Salt will line-up alongside new team members Alex Massie and Daniel Shoemaker.

Group shot of six people in front of a wooden wall, smiling to the camera
Cross-Country Skiing

Japanese skiers are the first to arrive in Cable, Wisconsin, USA, for the 2015 IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships which open on 23 January.

Two men running outside
Athletics

Colombian athlete was laid low for much of 2014 but is now fully recovered and keen to impress

A picture of a woman in the pool with her head and hands above the surface
Swimming

Fourteen athletes, including reigning world champions Jessica Long and Ian Silverman, make-up the A team for 2015.

Matt Formston and Michael Curran

Team for March’s event in the Netherlands features three reigning world champions.

A Canadian athlete tests the Cisco Milton Pan Am/Parapan Am Velodrome
Cycling

Opening of the Cisco Milton Pan Am/Parapan Am Velodrome marks six months until the Games begin.

Ottobock Equipment Loaner Programme
Para Ice Hockey

Programmes in Italy, Norway and Croatia have resulted in the establishment of two new ice sledge hockey teams, regional development and increased public awareness.

PASO Secretary General Jimena Saldana and APC President Jose Luis Campo sign a historic co-operation agreement between the two organisations
America

Agreement means that bidding cities for the Pan American Games are also obliged to bid for the Parapan American Games as a “host city for both Games”.

Logo Gambia National Paralympic Committee
Wheelchair Basketball

The President of the Gambian NPC hopes that the success of the festival will encourage regions to further develop para-sport.

Claudia Loesch of Austria
Alpine Skiing

Austria’s Claudia Loesch and Matthias Lanzinger will race in super-combined, slalom and giant slalom races on home snow in Matrei.

Two snowboarders race on a slope
Snowboard

Historic victories for American, Dutch, French and British riders at the para-snowboard World Cup in Aspen, USA.

Portrait shot of blond women
Canada

Canadian Paralympic Committee CEO named to list by the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity.