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IPC Ice Hockey B Pool World Championships
10-16 March

Nagano 2013 - Media Centre

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Dutch rider Chris Vos won the snowboard-cross men’s SB-LL1 at the 2015 IPC Para-Snowboard World Championships in La Molina, Spain
Alpine Skiing

A day after being crowned world champion in the snowboard-cross men’s SB-LL1 at the 2015 IPC Para-Snowboard World Championships in La Molina, Spain, the Netherlands’ Chris Vos is once again celebrating - this time his 17th birthday.

Sarah Storey
Cycling

British para-cyclist is aiming to break an 11-year-old world record on Saturday at the Velodrome that hosted London 2012’s track cycling events.

Women in black dress sitting in a wheelchair kissing a trophy
Powerlifting

Powerlifting World’s bronze medallist Cristina Menezes dreams of medalling at Rio 2016.

Walid Ktila
Athletics

As records fall, Ktila, Cockroft and Fairbank all notch their fourth successive wins.

IPC Powerlifting gathered classification representatives for a two-day meeting in Bonn, Germany
Powerlifting

Classifiers and sport representatives gathered in Bonn, Germany, to discuss the current and future direction of classification.

Logo of the Americas Paralympic Committee
Winter Sports

At Toronto 2015 athletes will be invited to vote for one athlete to sit on the Americas Paralympic Committee Executive Committee

Women on snowboard on the slope
Alpine Skiing

There was also several surprise results in snowboard-cross at La Molina 2015.

A picture of a man on a podium with a medal around his neck
Athletics

Australian world champion will line-up at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix which takes place in Brisbane between 3-5 March.

Rebecca Bedford of Great Britain - para-badminton
Badminton

The event between 8-13 September is expected to attract 235 athletes from 36 countries

Marlou van Rhijn wins gold at Lyon 2013
Athletics

The Dutch ‘Blade Babe’ lowered her own 100m T43 record whilst Aled Davies improved his shot put best, 24 hours after setting a new discus world record.

Danelle Umstead
Alpine Skiing

The US husband and wife duo of Danelle and Rob Umstead are putting everything they have towards the 2015 Worlds.

Yuliya Halinska and Laura Garcia Benitez
Judo

In 13 events at Hungary’s biggest ever para-sport event, Uzbekistan took gold in four of them.

Arlen and Simmonds - London 2012
Great Britain

More sport and physical activity providers will be asked to commit their support to a new Charter, which aims to improve the number of active disabled people in Great Britain.

Jakub Krako, Slovakia day one in the men's downhill visually impaired
Alpine Skiing

Slovakian skier Jakub Krako will use the growing competition in the men’s visually impaired field to try to push himself onto the podium at the 2015 Worlds.

Women passing a slalom pole on the slopes
Alpine Skiing

Nearly 50 skiers from eight countries will compete in downhill and super-combined ahead of the 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships in Panorama, Canada.

Doha 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships logo unveiled
Athletics

The event will take place this October attracting 1,300 athletes from 90 countries.

Two swimmers smile at each other after competing at the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships
Swimming

Despite the return of Spanish swimming legend Teresa Perales, Norwegian Sarah Louise Rung is focused on multiple golds at July’s World Championships.

Patrick Mayrhofer of Austria
Alpine Skiing

The world’s best riders from 18 countries have arrived in Spain for the 2015 IPC Para-Snowboard World Championships.

Aled Davies throwing a discus
Athletics

British thrower added 17cm to his own discus world record on the first day of the IPC Athletics Grand Prix.

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Alpine Skiing

US snowboarder Heidi Jo Duce is hoping for a repeat of her 2014 World Cup Finals performance where she landed on the podium at the same venue as the World Championships.