Healthy and Fit for Optimal Performance
4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Matthew Cowdrey and Jose Mari Alacaraz

Following on from athletics World Champs, Montreal, Canada is hosting the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships which will be livestreamed on ParalympicSport.TV.

Josh Vander Vies

Paralympic medallists from Canada and Parapans stars from Argentina, Colombia and Mexico highlight the field.

2013 Asian Youth Para-Games logo launch

The 2013 competition will be a benchmark for the event, as a record 14 sports will be contested in Malaysia.

David Wagner

The top-eight ranked men’s and women’s players will all partake in the event in New York.

Ernst van Dyk

Arguably the biggest rivalry in para-cycling just began brewing and should already be in full gear by this month’s Road World Championships.

Tatyana McFadden

Nominees for IPC Athlete of the Month include: Mandy Francois-Elie, Alan Fonteles Oliveira, Walid Ktila, Brent Lakatos, Raymond Martin and Tatyana McFadden.

A picture of a man in the pool sitting on the swimming line with his hand up

With six World and four regional Championships, and major winter sport events, August will be a busy month for para-sport.

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The IWRF European Wheelchair Rugby Championships will take place from 12-17 August in Antwerp, Belgium.

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Alan Dickson, a former President of CPISRA is currently a member of the IPC's Governing Board and has been since 2005.

Paralympic Symbol concrete

Fundraising dinner to be held at Gilze-Rijen airbase, the Netherlands, in aid of the Agitos Foundation and with support of the Royal Air Force.

Aleksin 2013

Nigeria’s Ivory Nwokorie, Iraq’s Huda Ali and Moldova's Stefan Rosca and Verginiu Arapu have committed anti-doping rule violations.

Pattaya Tadtong

Take a look at four of the world’s top boccia players as they compete at their regional tournaments this season.

Iran youth para-athletes

The Asian Youth Para-Games will take place from 26-30 October and are expected to draw nearly 2,500 athletes from 42 different countries.

A picture of man fixing up a wheelchair

Athletes from 56 nations visited the Ottobock workshop at the IPC Athletics World Championships, where 307 repairs were completed.

Dmitry Lisov

Russia have gone from not having an ice sledge hockey programme just a few years ago to being on the world’s biggest stage in their own country.

David Wetherill

Athletes from South Korea, Great Britain, China and Indonesia made headlines at the Korea Para-Table Tennis Open Championships.

Table tennis

Competition across 11 classes will take place this week in Incheon, Korea.

Yushae Simmons

Next weekend’s Americas Cup will be just the third international event for Bermuda’s boccia team.

Mexico’s women’s Wheelchair Basketball team

Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru will all play five days of competition in Guatemala City.

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Paralympians Alana Nichols and Tyler Walker are among those representing Team USA this year on the slopes.