IPC Ice Hockey B Pool World Championships
10-16 March

Nagano 2013 - Media Centre

News - Ice sledge hockey

Russia's Alexey Bugaev won downhill in the men's standing at Panorama 2015.

Alexey Bugaev and Ivan Frantsev take world titles, as France’s Marie Bochet and Anna Schaffelhuber also seal wins at para-alpine Worlds.

Leomon Silva of Brazil scored 51 goals at the 2014 Goalball World Championships

May’s event is expected to attract around 3,000 athletes from 80 countries who will compete in 10 sports.

Six men celebrating on a volleyball field.

Thanks to support received from the Agitos Foundation, Rwanda expect to send an increased number of athletes to Rio 2016.

Women and man pose with a medal

Ahead of the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Brisbane, world renowned para-athletics coach Iryna Dvoskina gives an insight into how she gets the best out of her athletes.

A woman in a wheelchair hits a tennis ball as a backhand.

The world’s leading women’s wheelchair tennis player is aiming to stay top of the world in 2015.

Kimberly Joines

Official Legal Partner brings legal expertise and fundraising component to Paralympic Movement

Sweden's ice sledge hockey team

Six teams will compete at the 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships B-Pool which open on Sunday 15 March.

Mac and B.J. Marcoux

Canada’s Mac Marcoux took the title for the hosts as Austrian Claudia Loesch fulfilled her dream, taking her first downhill World's title.

Athlete practicing alpine skiing in a sit-ski.

France’s Marie Bochet and Germany’s Anna Schaffelhuber set the quickest times in the first downhill training run of Panorama 2015.

Sweden's ice sledge hockey team

Players for Poland, South Korea, Great Britain, Slovakia, Austria and hosts Sweden have been announced.

Members of the PyeongChang 2018 Organising Committee gathered to start 2015 with greater focus.

By completing the manual the organising committee aim to accelerate its preparation for the Paralympic Winter Games

Claudia Loesch of Austria

Austrian sit-skier is the defending champion in super-combined, giant slalom and super-G but wants the speed title to complete her collection.

Kgothatso Montjane

After beating Morocco, the nation will now play in the World Group II at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup in Turkey on the 25-31 May.

French skier Marie Bochet skied the downhill at Panorama 2015.

A host of Paralympic and world champions from 23 countries are ready to go for the first gold medals at the 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships.

Beatrice Hess broke nine world records at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games

With the World Championships fast approaching, will 2015 be the year that the oldest world records in history will be broken?

Athlete practicing alpine skiing in a sit-ski.

France’s Marie Bochet and Germany’s Anna Schaffelhuber set the quickest times in the first downhill training run of Panorama 2015.

Skiing man curving around some slalom poles

The New Zealand duo are all set for the start of competition this Wednesday at the IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships in Panorama, Canada.

Two skiers in race suits going down a slope

Four of the seven British athletes took part at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games and will now compete at the IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships.

Toronto 2015 Parapans medals

Around 400 sets of medals will be presented during August’s Parapan American Games in Canada.

Group picture of people standing sitting and sitting in wheelchairs

Training took place to coincide with the first IPC Athletics Grand Prix of the season.