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IPC Ice Hockey B Pool World Championships
10-16 March

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Arjola Dedaj in action at the 2014 IPC Athletics European Championships.
Athletics

The European multi-medallist won her long jump competition on the first day of action at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Italy.

Alex Zanardi competes against Ernst van Dyk
Cycling

Team Italy is riding momentum off of their 19 medals in the first World Cup earlier in June.

Football 7-a-side - Team Ukraine
Football 7-a-side

Beat writer Richard McTiernan answers some key questions heading into the event, which will serve as a qualifier for Rio 2016.

Iran athletes take off during a race in the Iran National Para-Athletics Championships.
Athletics

Field athletes Amini, Mohammadian looked strong ahead of the World Championships in Doha, Qatar

Ireland’s 16-year-old wheelchair rugby rising star, Thomas Moylan
Wheelchair Rugby

In a new series profiling the stars of tomorrow, we look at the wheelchair rugby rookie has been key in Ireland’s rise in the ranks.

Australia's Melissa Perrine competes in the women's visually impaired super-G at the Sochi Paralympic Games 2014
Alpine Skiing

As the triple women’s visually impaired world champion from the 2015 Worlds, Australian Perrine already knows what is required to stay at the top.

Judoka Priscilla Gagne in training for the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games.
Table Tennis

Four judoka, eight table tennis players will have a chance to compete for berths to Rio 2016.

2011 Inas Games
Australia

The competition takes place ahead of Tokyo 2020, giving athletes an opportunity to qualify.

Logo_International Sports Federation for Persons with an Intellectual Disability (INAS-FID)
Ecuador

The inaugural event is aimed to raise awareness on intellectually disable sport.

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Athletics

More than 470 athletes from 38 countries will line-up this weekend in the Italian city for the eighth IPC Athletics Grand Prix of the year.

Bob Balk is the former Chairperson of the International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) Athletes’ Council and six-time US Paralympic sit-skier.
Alpine Skiing

The former US sit-skier recalls what made the 1994 Winter Games special and the changes he has seen since.

Jessica Long
Swimming

Long is ‘whole new swimmer with nothing to prove’

Adam Ballou of USA competes at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Football 7-a-side

After taking third in a recent tournament, the US showed they have the capability to make a run in the football 7-a-side Worlds.

Maskim Sedakov
Para dance sport

The Russian won all his couples and singles events as his teammates also took a total of seven golds.

General view at the Stadio Olimpico in Grosseto, Italy.
Athletics

Ahead of this weekend’s IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Grosseto, Italy, here are five facts that you might not know about the city.

Boccia balls are seen as Great Britain take on Greece in Boccia during the National Paralympic Day at the Olympic Park on September 7, 2013 in London, Engla
Boccia

The 2016 World Championships in March will be the last stop for athletes seeking a spot in Rio 2016.

Walid Ktila
Athletics

The Tunisian multi world and Paralympic champion gives an insight in to what makes him the world’s best T34 wheelchair racer.

Tracey Ferguson
Wheelchair Basketball

After winning the world title in Toronto last year, the six-time Paralympian is hoping to top the podium in wheelchair basketball once again.

The Alpensia Resort is seen from above on February 10, 2015 in the mountain cluster of Pyeongchang, South Korea.
PyeongChang 2018

Representatives from IPC Alpine Skiing and Snowboard went to South Korea to check on progress for skiing and snowboard for the next Paralympic Winter Games.

Terezinha Guilhermina
Rio 2016

The programme will feature 177 medal events and was approved by the IPC Governing Board in Tokyo, Japan.