With 400 days to go until the Sochi 2014 Games, here’s a brief tour of the Paralympic winter venues.
Goalball
Cairo, Egypt will host the 2013 IBSA Goalball African Regional Championships in October.
Para Ice Hockey
Czech defenseman Pavel Kubes will limit himself on social media this season so he can focus purely on the upcoming ice sledge hockey World Championships.
Shooting
IPC Shooting aims to increase the competitiveness for athletes and attractiveness for spectators by introducing new rule changes for 2013.
Wheelchair Tennis
Double Paralympic wheelchair tennis champion Peter Norfolk, known as the “Quadfather” will no longer compete full-time in the sport.
Wheelchair Tennis
Wheelchair tennis star Esther Vergeer of the Netherlands has now gone 10 years without losing on the international level of her sport.
Cross-Country Skiing
The European Para Snow Sport Youth Circuit is an exciting new development project that aims to grow snow sports for people with an impairment in Europe.
Cross-Country Skiing
The entire five-man American team for the IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships is made up of active duty or veteran servicemen.
2013 IPC Athletics World Championships
• Six Grand Prix events planned for 2013 starting in Dubai• Biennial World Championships in place until 2017• Two countries submit bids to stage 2014 European Championships
Vancouver 2010
Slovakia’s Jakub Krako is dreaming about winning his third slalom World Championship title in La Molina, Spain in February.
Triathlon
The 2013 British Triathlon Championships in Liverpool in July will include a para-triathlon category.
Triathlon
Andre Kajlich and Patricia Walsh, both No. 1 in the ITU world rankings, were named the top American para-triathletes of 2012.
Athletics
Australia’s two-time Paralympic medallist, shot putter Hamish Macdonald, is retiring as an athlete after years of devotion to Paralympic sport.
Rio 2016
The Rio 2016 Organising Committee held a briefing with 15 potential companies who could design their Games mascots.
Alpine Skiing
American Evan Strong was victorious in the IPCAS snowboard cross event on his home snow in South Tahoe (Nevada), USA.
Canada
Canada’s Paralympians were honoured last week for their achievements with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
Athletics
Brazil’s Terezinha Guilhermina and Great Britain’s Stef Reid won their British Athletics Series events, as Namibia’s Johanna Benson and Brazil’s Yohansson Nascimento also took part.
Wheelchair Tennis
When Kgothatso Montjane competed at the Australian Open last week, she became the first African player to participate in a wheelchair tennis Grand Slam.
Para Ice Hockey
USA defeated Korea, 5-2, to claim the title at the inaugural USA Hockey Sled Cup in Indian Trail, North Carolina.
Wheelchair Tennis
Japan’s Shingo Kunieda, the Netherlands’ Aniek van Koot and USA’s David Wagner wrapped up singles titles at the year’s first Grand Slam.