Paralympic News: Follow the latest IPC news and top stories featuring Paralympic athletes
![Nigerian Para badminton player Mariam Eniolo Bolaji celebrates with a clinched fist and a scream while holding her racket](/sites/default/files/2021-06/Eniola-Bolaji-Nigeria.jpg)
BWF grant boosts women's participation in Para badminton
More than 70 players from over 40 countries benefitted
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Salesforce partners with LA28, Team USA and NBCUniversal
'Salesforce will enable Team USA and the LA28 Games to connect with fans in the most personal way, curating connections and content like never before.'
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Sport Week: 10 things to know about judo
The original Paralympic martial art, judo will return to its roots at Tokyo 2020
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Paralympic hopefuls go for Tokyo ticket at Berlin 2021 World Series
German capital hosts swimmers in search of qualification for Tokyo 2020 as others put their form to test ahead of the Games in August
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Ostrava 2021: Get to know South Korea
Only Asian team in the competition will be looking at reaching the podium for the third consecutive World Championships
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German goalballer Michael Dennis says Tokyo 2020 will be ‘once in a lifetime’
After more than a decade of rebuilding, Germany's goalball team seems to have found a winning formula
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Fans return to Ostrava 2021 World Championships
Local Organising Committee launches ticket sales for the competition with a code of conduct based on the COVID-19 measures in effect Czech Republic
Para athletics and Para swimming Euros conclude with successful COVID-19 protocols
A total of 5,842 tests (PCR and antigen) were conducted across 12 days and 670 athletes from 44 countries took part in the event.
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Sport Week: Ones to watch for goalball
Ten men and 10 women’s teams will take to the courts at the Makuhari Messe Hall C at Tokyo 2020
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Birmingham 2022 reveals detailed schedule and ticket information
Six out of the eight Para sports in the competition programme set to kick off on 29 August in next year's Commonwealth Games
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IPC provides update on Tokyo 2020 qualification
A record number of National Paralympic Committees could compete at Tokyo
![Four Czech Republic Para ice hockey players on an ice rink](/sites/default/files/2021-06/47678300462_94859112e5_h.jpg)
Ostrava 2021: Get to know Czech Republic
Host nation is the fourth seed in an extremely tough preliminary round group that also includes USA, Canada and South Korea
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Third version of Tokyo 2020 Playbooks published
One of the key updates to the third version of the Playbooks relates to additional details on compliance
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Lima 2021: Ukraine and South Korea dominate days 1 and 2
Nine athletes earn Tokyo 2020 qualification spots after the first two days of action at the World Cup in the Peruvian capital
Sport Week: 10 things to know about goalball
The original team sport for people with vision impairments, goalball celebrates its 75 year anniversary in 2021.
![Ricardinho controls the ball, while two Turkish players try to take it from him](/sites/default/files/images/190604085911896_Ricardinho-Brazil.jpg)
Tokyo 2020 football 5-a-side groups decided
Four-time Paralympic champions Brazil lead group A while rival Argentina drawn separately
![Italian Para cyclist Luca Mazzone in his wheelchair on the podium](/sites/default/files/2021-06/Luca-Mazzone.jpg)
Paralympic champion Luca Mazzone secures hat-trick of titles at Road Worlds
Italy finish at top of the medal standings with 13 golds, four silver and two bronze in Portuguese soil
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Ostrava 2021: Get to know Norway
All the information you need to follow the Norwegian team during the World Championships that kicks off this week
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Stage set for first World Cup in Lima
Peruvian capital host 157 athletes from 44 nations in the last shooting Para sport qualification event for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
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Vive la revolution: France plans football 5-a-side renaissance at Tokyo 2020
National team had to hit rock bottom first to build up and return to the Paralympics