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IPC President visits Australia
Andrew Parsons meets with country’s Prime Minister, attends major Para sport events and presents awards to leading sports administrators
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Barrio breaking down barriers
Spanish runner inspires young people with disabilities – especially girls – through her writing and teaching, as well as athletics podiums
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Barlaams bring out their best for the Fighting Fish
Voted top male swimmer from the London 2019 World Championships, Simone Barlaam shares with his father Italy's success in the pool
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Record-breaking demand for Paralympic tickets
Initial offering of Paralympic Games tickets concludes successfully with record number of applications
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IPC publishes 2018 Annual Report
New IOC Agreement and PyeongChang 2018 highlight stellar year
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Skelhon ‘laughs’ his way to double gold
Debutant Tomas Pesek of the Czech Republic stuns the best for gold
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Peacock withdraws from Worlds
Two-time Paralympic and world champion out of season's most important competition due to knee injury
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Nail-biting finals decide world champions on day six
Serbia's Dragan Ristic and Ukraine's Iryna Liakhu hold their nerves to win their events in Australia
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Krajnyak keen to end Paralympic gold draught
'At Tokyo2020 I want to show the best of myself, I want to win,' says Hungarian wheelchair fencer
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Technical officials certified ahead of African Para Games
Educational course in Moroccan capital takes place with support from the German Federal Foreign Office
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Germany take European crown
Hosts bagged gold in the men’s event and settled for bronze on the women’s category at Goalball European Championships
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Experience triumphs over youth as Vadovicova breaks silence
After missing podium in first two events, Slovakian counts with years of shooting, plus a little luck, to help her on day five
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Greg Hartung awarded with Paralympic Order
IPC President Andrew Parsons makes presentation at a glittering ceremony in Sydney
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Tai named Athlete of the Month
Brit finished as the most successful swimmer from World Championships
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Nystrom from lucky loser to history maker
Finnish shooter takes gold in the first ever vision impaired event at a World Shooting Para Sport Championships
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Czech Republic playing it cool despite success
‘We are very happy to come back to Group B because I think we belong there’
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Vote for Best Team
Four nominees in the poll to select Best Team of the Parapan American Games
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INAS Global Games get underway
A high quality field of athletes have made the journey to Brisbane for swimming
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Chicago Marathon: Romanchuk kicks off series in style
Manuela Schaer takes her eight consecutive Majors victory and USA wheelchair racer wins again where his road to glory began
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Proud Paralympian Educators are trained in Bonn
Fourteen Para athletes underwent a four-day course in Bonn to become certified Proud Paralympian Educators