IPC Ice Hockey B Pool World Championships
10-16 March

Nagano 2013 - Media Centre

News - Ice sledge hockey

Jose Roberto Ferreira de Oliveira (L) and Filippe Santos Silvestre of Brazil dive in front of the goal during the Men's Group A Goalball match between Finland and Brazil on day 1 of the London 2012 Paralympic Games

IBSA have published their monthly goalball world rankings as of 31 May and it sees a change at the top of the women’s game, whilst there is no change in the top five of the men’s game.

A view onto the Rio 2016 venues

IPC Athletics has announced that 27 of the 177 events planned for inclusion in the track and field programme at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games are currently not meeting the minimum eligibility criteria as of 6 June 2014 due to the population of athletes.

A young amputee girl smiles to the camera, wearing a white t-shirt with a Swansea 2014 imprint

An aspiring young Paralympian will fly to Berlin for a unique Swansea 2014 mission this week.

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

The pair were Great Britain's first ever winners of a Paralympic Winter Games gold medal and have been recognised in the Queen's birthday honours list.

On the left, a wheelchair basketball player looks to pass the ball. On the right is typed information about the 2014 Women's Wheelchair Basketball World Championships.

Twelve teams are heading to Toronto, Canada, for the women's wheelchair basketball World Championships which start on Friday.

Sophie Pascoe Day 3 London

Coach of Sophie Pascore will become a Performance Coach for Paralympicz New Zealand para-swimming programme.

Zak Madell

Eight of the best teams will compete in Vancouver just two months prior to playing at the World Championships.

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

Sochi 2014 gold medallists Gallagher and Evans recognised together with Jenny Archer in Queen's birthday honours list.

British wheelchair racer David Weir with his lifelong coach Jenny Archer MBE.

Since becoming Weir's coach in 2002, Archer has seen her prodigy win six Paralympic golds and six world titles

Aled Davies throwing a discus

Great Britain’s Aled Davies wins the public vote after breaking the discus world record at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Grosseto, Italy.

Paralympian 02/2014 page 6

Filled with Sochi 2014 highlights and a special feature about the 25 years since the IPC was founded, the second edition of 2014 will not disappoint.

Veronika Vadovicova 2014

IPC Shooting is offering visually impaired athletes the chance to take part in a demonstration event during the 2014 World Championships, with a view to future development of the sport under IPC Shooting.

Sir Philip Craven

Speaking at the 6th International Working Group (IWG) World Conference on Women and Sport in Helsinki, Finland, the IPC President outlined the Paralympic Movement's long term ambition.

Walid Ktila

The IPC Athletics Grand Prix series moves to Africa for the 8th Tunis International Meeting on 16-18 June, marking the first time the continent has staged a major IPC Athletics event.

Female wheelchair basketball players lined up, cheering during a game with an amputee man in a suit standing in front of them

For most coaches, managing one team is stressful enough, but preparing two teams for upcoming World Championships in successive months takes some doing.

Athlete swimming.

Four-time world champion and double Paralympic champion Sarah Louise Rung reveals that despite winning four gold medals at the 2013 worlds, she can swim better and faster at Eindhoven 2014.

Man in black suit putting a medal around a young girls neck

Officials from Inas - the International Federation for Sport for athletes with an intellectual impairment - this week concluded their second site visit to Guayaquil, Ecuador, venue for the 2015 Inas Global Games.

The british doubles team (Shuker/Whiley) plays at the London 2012 Paralympic Games

Australian Open and Roland Garros champion Jordanne Whiley is among three Brits on the Tennis Foundation’s Performance Programme set to contest the wheelchair tennis doubles event at Wimbledon this year after the British No. 1 and British No.2 Lucy Shuker gained direct entry for the women’s doubles with their respective partners.

Eindhoven's Pieter van den Hoogenband Swimming Stadium

Media can now apply to cover the biggest para-swimming event in Europe in 2014

Group shot of men in women in room with blue floor anr white walls.

IPC Athletics, the global governing body of para-athletics, has launched its Education Pathways Programme which aims to improve the standards of classifiers, technical officials and coaches within the sport.