Nagano 2013 - Media Centre

Canoe

The Lagoa Stadium will host the para-canoe events at this year’s Paralympic Games.

Para Ice Hockey

With two years to go until the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, the Paralympic silver medallists aim to get back to their best.

PyeongChang 2018

“Snowboarding as a bilateral or above-knee amputee is the most technically complicated sport in the Paralympics,” says the US snowboarder.

Cross-Country Skiing

Skiers who are benefitting from Agitos Foundation support have been competing and training on snow for the first time.

Swimming

The gathering of athletes, researchers, classifiers and representatives of IPC Swimming is the first since a review into the physical impairment classification system was announced.

Athletics

The UAE's Mohamed Hammadi continues to dominate the track with his second victory in Dubai.

Canoe

At Rio 2016, men and women will compete in three classes.

Paralympian and campaigner has been working with Tinatin Revazashivili as part of a project aimed at getting more women into leadership positions in the Paralympic Movement.

Majida Sabir Albalushi from the Oman Paralympic Committee and Petra Huber from the Austrian Paralympic Committee talk about their experiences of WoMentoring.

Athletics

Action in the field events dominates competition on the second day of the 2016 IPC Athletics Asia-Oceania Championships.

Canada

The Canadian Minister for Sport and Persons with Disabilities was nominated alongside Anne Wafula-Strike, Irene Chang, Dr. Hayat Khattab and Moekie Grobbelaar.

Rio 2016

These figures mark some significant moments in the para-triathlete’s road to Rio 2016.

Rio 2016

Carioca Arena 3, which will become a sport-focused high school, inaugurated to celebrate six months until the Paralympic Games.

Ice sledge hockey coach Tara Chisholm and Barbara Daniels, a coach educator talk about their experiences of WoMentoring.

Alpine Skiing

Star-studded giant slalom and slalom field includes Japan’s Taiki Morii and Momoka Muraoka, and Russia’s Aleksei Bugaev and Valerii Redkozubov.

Athletics

Two Asian records were broken in Dubai, UAE, on the first day of competition at the 2016 IPC Athletics Asia-Oceania Championships

Rio 2016

On the strength of unprecedented summer Paralympics coverage across NBC, NBC Sports Network, and TeamUSA.org, the global head of the Paralympic Movement believes the Games will be a major platform to further educate the U.S. about disabilities.

Rio 2016

Today Monday 7 March marks six months to go until the Opening Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Paralympics, a Games that is vital for the continued growth of the Paralympic Movement.

Athletics

The dominant force in men’s T52 wheelchair racing shares with us his three favourite tunes.

Rio 2016

Everything you need to know about para-canoe, ahead of its Paralympic debut at Rio 2016.