IPC Ice Hockey B Pool World Championships
10-16 March

Nagano 2013 - Media Centre

News - Ice sledge hockey

Group shot of wheelchair basketball team

The Turkish and Germans made their cases for spots in the gold medal game in day seven of the European Championships.

Upper body of man who is giving a speech

The long-time high performance coach will be one of the keynote speakers at the inaugural conference this December in Colorado Springs, USA.

The 2015 World Rowing Championships is held in Aiguebelette, France.

Norway’s Birgit Skarstein and Australia’s Erik Horrie won the AS women and men’s single sculls semi-finals, respectively, moving closer to defending their world titles.

Group of young people sitting around a table with laptops, discussing

Workshop with around 50 journalists, designers, programmers and students kicks off celebrations for one year to Rio 2016.

Man in a sledge, playing hockey on the ice

Fresh from silver-medal success in wheelchair basketball at Toronto 2015, Liam Hickey is hoping to make his Team Canada dreams a reality again.

Mariska Beijer

The defending European women’s champions defeated the London 2012 Paralympic champions on day six.

Man in wheelchair doing a dancing pose

Hungary will enter their first competition being held in St. Petersburg alongside athletes from nearly 20 countries.

Michael McKillop, Stef Reid and Scott Reardon.

Find out family connections for Michael McKillop, Scott Reardon and Stef Reid are spurring them on to even greater things.

Jason Smyth, the fastest Paralympic athlete on the planet.

Irishman, the fastest para-athlete of all time, in Brazil to help celebrate one year until the Games.

David Brown trains with his guide Jerome Avery in Urca.

Unprecedented race will bring together runners with different types of disability in celebration of one year until the Paralympic Games.

Wheelchair athlete on the track

The T34 wheelchair racer talks about the influence of Kurt Fearnley and how he is aiming to win his first world title this October.

Vinicius and Tom, mascots for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The two-day festival will include a race to define the world’s fastest sprinter, plus a rival football match between Brazil and Argentina.

Two athletes doing taekwondo

Five World Championships events in para-sport will be scattered throughout this month, along with four regional Championships.

Collage of five athlete photos

The public has until 9 September to vote for their favourite from the five candidates.

Woman cross country skiing

Inclusion of marathon distance for the first time, as six biathlon and cross-country World Cups are confirmed.

Group shot of a wheelchair basketball team

The women’s basketball team continued their campaign toward a consecutive European Championship crown, while the Turkish and German men stay undefeated.

Hannah Cockroft Stoke Mandeville

The ‘Heritage Flame’ will merge with the Brazilian Regional Flames in the lead up to the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony.

Terezinha Guilhermina

Many of the world’s fastest para-athletes will race over 100m to mark one year to go until the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Rowing was introduced for the first time at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games.

Heats in the para-rowing boat classes got underway, with the Israeli rower recording the fastest qualifying time in her heat.

Group of archers huddled

The final day of the World Archery Para Championships featured Great Britain dominating the VI 2/3 category.