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IPC Ice Hockey B Pool World Championships
10-16 March

Nagano 2013 - Media Centre

News - Ice sledge hockey

The International Paralympic Committee will exclusively sell broadcasting rights for the Pyeongchang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games.
PyeongChang 2018

The Paralympic Movement’s global governing body will be responsible for marketing the international broadcast rights for the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games.

Podium at the VISTA 2013 Conference in Bonn, Germany
VISTA

The IPC’s sports science conference will offer insight and knowledge from world-class keynote speakers, as well as sessions surrounding classification, sport medicine and more.

Brent Lakatos of Canada
Athletics

The T53 wheelchair racer won four gold medals at the last World Championships and will be one to beat at Doha 2015.

Woman lying on the floow, celebrating
Badminton

The Danish athlete captured gold in the women’s singles SU 5 event at the BWF Para-Badminton World Championships 2015.

David Weir
Athletics

With less than one month to go until the IPC Athletics World Championships, David Weir takes us through his normal training day.

Romain Noble - London 2012
Wheelchair Fencing

The French men took the epee team title, while the Hong Kong women cruised to gold in the foil team event at the Wheelchair Fencing World Championships.

Logo ITTF European Championships Vejle Denmark
Table Tennis

Ticket sales have opened for the event, which will feature more than 200 athletes across the region competing for European titles.

Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) logo
Australia

The Australian Paralympic Committee also appointed four new directors to their Board.

Paralympian Terezinha Guilhermina of Brazil runs with Usain Bolt of Jamaica as her guide during an exhibition in preparation for the Mano a Mano Athletics Challenge in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2011, she was elected to the APC Executive Committee at the Guadalajara Parapan American Games.
Athletics

The Brazilian sprinter is to set to dazzle Doha 2015 with her world class sprinting and colourful blindfolds.

Seyed Erfan Hosseini Liravi
Athletics

Iran will look to make noise in the field events with defending Paralympic champions highlighting the 19-person roster.

Medal ceremony at the Wheelchair Fencing World Championships in Eger Hungary.
Wheelchair Fencing

Russia’s Alexander Lugotenko adds the foil category C title to his collection from the IWAS Wheelchair Fencing World Championships.

Sir Philip Craven was among the first passengers on the Rio 2016 Celebrate Literature train.
Rio 2016

Ahead of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, close to USD 1 million will be spent making many major tourist attractions accessible for all.

An wheelchair racer shouts out after crossing the finish line in first place.
Athletics

The Flying Finn is the man to beat over 100m at Doha 2015

Four athletes at the medal ceremony.
Wheelchair Fencing

China’s Xu Feng Zou followed up her epee win with gold in the sabre at the IWAS Wheelchair Fencing World Championships.

The Great Britain team celebrate after winning the wheelchair rugby final match between Great Britain and Sweden at the 2015 European Championship in Pajulahti, Finland.
Wheelchair Rugby

Sweden were unable to defend their title, as the British took a one-point victory.

The Netherlands’ Frank Hosmar
Equestrian

The Netherlands top European powerhouse Great Britain in the medals tables at the Championships.

A general view of the Cross-country skiing course at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.
Cross-Country Skiing

IPC Alpine Skiing and Snowboard and IPC Cross-Country Skiing and Biathlon are looking for bidders for the 2019 and 2021 World Championships.

Podium with three men
Triathlon

Canada’s Stefan Daniel ended the winning streak of Germany’s Martin Schulz in the men’s PT4 category.

Esther Oyema
Powerlifting

Nigeria and Egypt all leave the first Paralympic ranking competition in Africa with world bests.

A picture of a woman in the wheelchair on a track celebrating with her hand up
Rio 2016

Top male and female wheelchair racers will be closer to securing a spot on Team USA for Rio 2016.