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4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Marie Bochet
Alpine Skiing

Media accreditation for the 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships now open

A view onto the Rio 2016 venues
Rio 2016

The goal is to reduce, compensate and mitigate carbon emissions to stimulate the low carbon economy

Upper bodies of two men sitting behind a table, listening to something.
Iran

Iranian team finished fourth at the Asian Para Games winning 120 medals

Man in wheelchair on a stage waving a huge flag with the Paralympic symbol on it, handing it over to another person.
PyeongChang 2018

The President observed the preparations for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and was greeted by over 120 people.

Harborcenter Buffalo 2015
Para Ice Hockey

The state-of-the-art venue for the 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey A-Pool World Championships has opened in Buffalo, New York, USA.

Women wearing a headscarf looks surprised and happy in front of a Incheon 2014 Asian Para Games banner

Athletes from Asia dominated para-sport in October, with history also being made in Gambia.

Chuck Aoki
Athletics

Reacting to an online blog that labelled wheelchair racing “not elite sport”, US wheelchair rugby player Chuck Aoki challenges Olympians to support Paralympians to be recognised as elite athletes in the media.

Women in racing wheelchair crosses the finish line on a street
Athletics

The USA’s Tatyana McFadden recovered from a fall to win the New York Marathon, with Australia’s Kurt Fearnley scooping the men’s title.

Urko Egea Zabalza - Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympic Games - Para Snowboarding
Table Tennis

The new IPC anti-doping code has been published, Australia are set to host the first ever integrated table tennis tournament and more.

A picture of a man in a wheelchair playing tennis
Wheelchair Tennis

November will see the IBSA Football 5-a-side World Championships, the IPC Wheelchair Dance Sport European Championships and more.

Allianz fact of the week prothesis

A prosthesis, prosthetic, or prosthetic limb is a manufactured extension that replaces a missing body part. It comes from a Greek word which means ‘addition’.

Female runner crosses the finish line on a blue track in a stadium, celebrating
Shooting

The Asian Para Games took centre stage in October, with the Ice Sledge Hockey 4 Nations Cup another highlight of the sporting month.

Women in wheelchair, man walking both holding a trophy in their hands
Alpine Skiing

The Austrian duo received the awards after their medal winning performances at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games

Three men (one in a wheelchair) pose in front of a wooden wall and some flags
Portugal

IPC President Sir Philip Craven travelled to Lisbon to attend the congress.

Great Britain's Kelly Gallagher (right) and guide Charlotte Evans (left) celebrate winning Sochi 2014 gold in the women's Super-G
Great Britain

The award, in partnership with Sky Sports, sees Stephanie Slater, Jordanne Whiley, Kelly Gallagher and guide Charlotte Evans and Libby Clegg all nominated.

5 male and female athletes in British jerseys stand and sit (in wheelchairs) next to each others in front of a black wall. Behind them is the logo: Swansea 2014. It's coming. Be part of it.
Athletics

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations awarded gold to Swansea 2014 in the Best Sporting Campaign Category

Roman Petushkov
Biathlon

The group responsible for developing IPC Nordic Skiing will be led by former athlete Rob Walsh for another four years.

A picture of 2 men in a canoe shaking their hands celebrating a victory
Rio 2016

Jono Wing and Stuart Hogg have both taken on new state-of-the-art boats in a bid to reach the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Man in wheelchair targets. Nice landscape in the background
Shooting

As part of the second phase of developing a shotgun discipline for para-athletes, representatives of the sport travelled to Todi, Italy.

A para-triathlete closes his eyes as he crosses the finish line and raises the finish line banner up in the air.
Rio 2016

The 2015 Rio de Janeiro ITU World Para-Triathlon event in Brazil will act as the test event for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.