IPC Ice Hockey B Pool World Championships
10-16 March

Nagano 2013 - Media Centre

News - Ice sledge hockey

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

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

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

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

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

Bosnia men's sitting volleyball team

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.

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

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

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

Walid Ktila

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

Blod women in orange jersey performing a long jump

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.

A stunning view of Rio from Sugar Loaf Mountain

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

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

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

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.

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

Justin Eveson

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.

Three sprinters run on a blue track

Having taken up para-athletics just 18 months ago and only recently finishing school, Germany’s Felix Streng is emerging as one of the surprise packages of the 2014 season and a potential rival to Great Britain’s Jonnie Peacock at August’s European Championships in Swansea, Great Britain.

Ali Jawad

Great Britain’s Ali Jawad arrived at the 2014 IPC Powerlifting World Championships with the aim of casting aside disappointment which started at Beijing 2008.

David Weir

Eight para-athletes named as part of England track and field squad for Glasgow 2014.

A picture of a woman in a wheelchair shooting between two defenders during a wheelchair basketball match.

There was only one word that Canada’s wheelchair basketballer Janet McLachlan could use to describe how she will feel when she takes to the court for Friday’s (20 June) World Championships opening match against Japan in front of friends and family - “Special”.

Breaking down barriers - Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games

To mark the three month anniversary since the Closing Ceremony of the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has launched a stunning online short film ”Sochi 2014 – Breaking Down Barriers” featuring many highlights from March’s event.