IPC Ice Hockey B Pool World Championships
10-16 March

Nagano 2013 - Media Centre

News - Ice sledge hockey

Japan’s Gurimu Narita competes at the 2017 World Para Snowboard Championships in Big White, Canada.

The Japanese snowboarder is keeping the men’s SB-LL2 on their toes-edges ahead of PyeongChang 2018.

Matti Suur-Hamari took the victory in the men's SB-LL2 snowboard-cross race at the La Molina 2015 IPC Para-Snowboard World Championships

A series of newly crowned world champions will compete in La Molina, Spain, from Monday (13 February)

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The IPC Taskforce report summarises the progress the RPC has made in meeting the conditions required to have its IPC suspension lifted.

Ashley Facey Thompson of Great Britain competes in the Men's singles Table Tennis - Class 9 at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

The line-up for 2017 includes some new faces including Paralympic, world and European champions.

A young boy and girl with a man and a woman posing for the photo

Father Josef and mother Marien cheered for their children Carina and her brother guide Julian as they took gold at the 2017 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships.

Two cross-country skiers with an Austrian flag

Guides from Norway, Ukraine and Germany shared their thoughts whilst they compete at the 2017 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships.

Ukraine's Paralympic champions Oleksandra Kononova and Grygorii Vovchynskyi married in 2011.  Both are competing at the 2017 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships in Finsterau, Germany.

Paralympic champions Oleksandra Kononova and Grygorii Vovchynskyi, who married in 2011, are representing Ukraine at the World Para Nordic Skiing Championships in Finsterau.

Ruth Hagspiel - alpine skiing

Medallists from the recently concluded World Para Alpine Skiing Championships highlight the fields for slalom and giant slalom.

ASOS renews partnership with ParalympicsGB team

The partnership with the global retailer will cover PyeongChang 2018 and Tokyo 2020.

Day 2 Highlights: 2017 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships

The US sit-skier was the fastest in the women’s cross-country sprint race to claim her maiden world title in Finsterau, Germany.

Track cyclist

Great Britain´s most decorated female Paralympian is yet not satisfied with her medal haul and aims to win more titles in four-years-time.

Group picture on a tennis court with some people in wheelchairs

The 16-year-old wheelchair tennis player dreams of reaching the top spot in the women´s rankings, emulating what her hero and tennis legend Martina Hingis did over a decade ago.

Paralympics New Zealand - logo for stories

The third edition of this event since the end of Rio 2016 will take place on 18 February and aims to raise awareness of Para sports in the country.

Successful sporting events are a consequence of the hard work of many people behind the scenes.

Successful sporting events are a consequence of the hard work of many people behind the scenes.

Logo International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA)

It will be the sixth edition of the event, with the previous ones taking place in Madrid, Quebec, Sao Paulo, Antalya and Seoul.

Woman with no legs in sit ski on a slope

The German sit-skier, who won silver in the women´s biathlon middle distance sitting at Finsterau 2017, says a good book always helps her relax before competing.

Day 1 Highlights: 2017 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships

There were also further podium finishes for German biathletes in Finsterau on Saturday (11 February).

Croatia NPC 2016 sport awards

Mikela Risto, Zoran Talic, Liam Malone and Sophie Pascoe all received prestigious national honours.

Germany's Andrea Eskau won gold in the long distance cross-country at Cable 2015

The German will be a strong candidate for gold in the women´s sitting events Finsterau, from 10-19 February.

Japanese Nordic skier Kazuto Takamura

The Japanese Nordic skier, also an acupuncture professor, hopes his performance in Finsterau can inspire his students to strive for their best.