Healthy and Fit for Optimal Performance
4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

International Wheelchair Rugby Federation New Website's Screenshot

New website displays plenty of images and videos to display best features of Wheelchair Rugby

French Wheelchair Tennis player Stephane Houdet

Aniek van Koot took world no 1 Vergeer to a third set for the first time in their 22 career meetings

Swedish Table Tennis player Fredrik Andersson

Final announcements will be made on 25 June

Canada Ice Sledge Hockey Fans

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Benoit Huot at the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships

Mortimer and Huot swim provisional world records

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The Americans defeated Korea, 5-1, for gold, and the Canadians beat the Czechs, 2-0, for the bronze in Hamar, Norway.

Russia's Roman Petushkov takes lead over teammate Irek Zaripov

Russia’s Remizova, Polukhin, Petushkov and Konovalova dominated the Visually Impaired and Sitting Biathlon events at the IPC Nordic Skiing World Cup.

Sarah Storey

Great Britain's Sarah Storey talks about getting the fastest time recorded by a woman on the For VioRed course, and who are the five people who have been most instrumental in her success.

Andrew Parsons, President of the Brazilian Paralympic Committee

Pavel Kubes

Pavel Kubes of the Czech Republic and Greg Westlake of Canada, will face each other in Sunday's (1 April) bronze-medal game at the Ice Sledge Hockey Worlds.

Eskil Hagen

Norway defeated Italy for fifth place and Japan beat Estonia for seventh place at the 2012 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships.

Steve Cash

The Americans are the reigning world and Paralympic champions in Ice Sledge Hockey and could pick up another gold medal on Sunday (1 April).

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Could this wheelchair be the future of Parlaympic Sport?

Korea in Ice Sledge Worlds round robin

Korea has shocked spectators at the 2012 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships, beating the Czech Republic to advance to the gold-medal game against USA.

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USA beat arch-rival Canada and Korea defeated the Czech Republic in the World Championship semi-finals, setting up a gold-medal showdown.

Germany's Anna Schaffelhuber

Slalom races finish off Europa Cup finals in Aron, France.