PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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Hosts wanted for 2018 Para triathlons
Bidding process opens for events leading up to 2018 Worlds and Tokyo 2020.
![Brazilian athlete clears a bar in the high jump](/sites/default/files/images/170805203639620_Nottwil%2B2017.jpg)
Nottwil 2017: Day four preview
The USA´s three-time world junior champion Hannah Dederick will go for four.
![Mohhamad Fathiganji - Iran - Nottwil 2017](/sites/default/files/images/170806084942296_20170805_115459.jpg)
Nottwil 2017: Iran´s Fathiganji dreams with Tokyo 2020 podium
Javelin thrower hopes Junior Worlds can act as catalyst for future Paralympic success.
![Guadalupe Vergara Quezada - Mexico - Nottwil 2017](/sites/default/files/images/170809101553357_mexican%2Bresize%2Bdone.jpg)
Nottwil 2017: Books are Quezada's golden secret
“Reading helps me focus,” reveals Mexico's world junior champion in the women's discus throw F40-F41.
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Nottwil 2017: Closing Ceremony
Speech by Tarek Souei, World Para Athletics Sports Technical Committee
Nottwil 2017: Hosts Switzerland celebrate first gold on final day
Licia Mussinelli wins the women´s 1,500m T51-T54 youth title (U18), defeating USA´s world junior champion Hannah Dederick.
![Azerbaijan’s Ilham Zakiyev conceded the final match at the 2015 IBSA European Judo Championships to Russia’s Abdula Kurmagomedov.](/sites/default/files/2019-10/IBSA%2BJudo%2BEuropean%2BChampionships.jpg)
Azerbaijan win both team titles at IBSA Judo Europeans
Azerbaijan won both the men’s and women’s team event on the final day of the 2017 IBSA European Judo Championships.
![Luis Lucumi - Dixon Hooker](/sites/default/files/images/170805113059862_Lucumi%2BHooker.jpg)
Nottwil 2017: Lucumi thanks Paralympian for success
Colombia´s Rio 2016 silver medallist admits without fellow athlete Dixon Hooker, he would not be who he is today.
![Azerbaijani judoka Rovshan Safarov](/sites/default/files/2019-10/Rovshan%2BSafarov%2B.jpg)
Seventh heaven for Zakiyev at judo Euros
The Azerbaijan judoka claimed his seventh successive European title in the men’s over 100kg.
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Nottwil 2017: Hannah Dederick seals third world junior title
US wheelchair racer wins the women´s 800m T51-T54 Youth (U18) on the penultimate day.