IPC Ice Hockey B Pool World Championships
10-16 March

Nagano 2013 - Media Centre

News - Ice sledge hockey

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Italian world champion Caironi hoping this weekend's Grand Prix can improve her form ahead of August's Europeans.

USA's ice sledge hockey team

Buffalo, New York, will host the eighth edition of the competition following the huge success of the sport at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.

An ice sledge hockey player skates up to his teammate to celebrate.

The IPC’s Editorial Co-ordinator outlines some of the most insightful, funny and enlightening Paralympians in the world to interview.

Shooting

Organisers of the 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships taking place in Suhl, Germany, are seeking people with language skills to volunteer for the biggest shooting para-sport competition in 2014.

Stefan Lokhoff

The Netherlands, Brazil and Ukraine will compete this weekend at the International CP Tournament in Groesbeek.

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The sixth IPC Athletics Grand Prix of the season will see 341 athletes from 32 countries gather in Italy.

Athletes pose for a podium shot.

New Zealand’s high-performance para-cycling programme is launching new medallists every year.

A picture of a woman in a wheelchair shooting between two defenders during a wheelchair basketball match.

The Canadian wheelchair basketball player gives fans a quick glance at her schedule in the lead-up to this summer’s big event.

A man paddles in a canoe.

Find out which athletes are on top form heading into the summer’s World Championships.

Siamand Rahman Dubai 2014

The reigning World Champion reveals it was intervention by his coaches which prevented him from going further at the 2014 IPC Powerlifting World Championships, but that he will go for 300kg at the Incheon 2014 Asian Para Games.

Wheelchair racer crosses the finish line

So determined is Dutch wheelchair racer Stefan Rusch to retain his sprint titles that he is putting his 21st birthday celebrations on hold this Saturday (31 May) to compete in the Dutch National Championships.

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Three of China’s best swimmers Qing Xu, Tao Zheng and Yang Yang speak about why the country is such a force in swimming ahead of the 2014 Incheon Asian Para Games.

A group of about 40 people pose for a photo after a workshop.

A workshop in Cameroon was held to explore how to increase the number of athletes from Africa in Paralympic sport with an intellectual impairment.

A para-triathlete closes his eyes as he crosses the finish line and raises the finish line banner up in the air.

More than 60 athletes from 17 countries raced across five classes in Besancon, France.

Water splashes up as a woman sails in a boat.

The Brits powered to titles in the 2.4mR and SKUD 18 events at the Delta Loyd Regatta for sailing.

Matt Skelhon, Iurii Stoiev and Andrii Doroshenko

IPC Shooting will not endorse the World Cup in Bangkok.

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The next ITU World Para-Triathlon event will take place on Sunday (26 May) ahead of this summer’s European and World Championships.

Bosnia men's sitting volleyball team

Sixteen men’s and 12 women’s teams will vie for world titles in Poland in June.

The Irish runner Jason Smyth competes in the men's 100m - T13 heats at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

The National Paralympic Committee’s new strategic plan focuses on talent identification and athlete development pathways.

Two people give a thumbs up and a peace sign in front of a "Say No! to Doping" sign.

Find how a revised World Anti-Doping Code for athletes will be implemented starting in 2015.