PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
![Strathmore water has been announced as the national supplier of bottled water for both the IAAF World Championships London 2017 and the World Para Athletics Championships.](/sites/default/files/images/170126072505162_Strathmore%2Bwater.jpg)
Strathmore water to hydrate world class athletes in 2017
Athletes, officials and volunteers at London 2017 will be hydrated by more than one million bottles of water being supplied by the water brand.
Visually impaired skiers needed for research at Worlds
Researchers from the University of Waterloo are inviting athletes to help with classification at the Para alpine Worlds in Tarvisio, Italy.
US snowboarders top home NorAm competition
Minor remains undefeated while Purdy makes successful season debut, just ahead of the 2017 World Championships.
Dennis reflects on Rio 2016, looks ahead to 2017
The US goalball player was a key member of the team that returned to the Paralympic podium at Rio 2016 and is now preparing for the next events.
![Monique Kalkman-Van den Bosch was elected for induction to the International Tennis Hall of Fame.](/sites/default/files/images/170124123436327_Monique%2BKalkman.jpg)
Throwback Thursday: The Netherlands’ Monique Kalkman
The first Dutch female wheelchair tennis player to win Paralympic gold recalls Barcelona 1992, the Games in which she made history.
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Bertagnolli seals bronze for Italy at World Champs
Austria’s Claudia Loesch toppled Germany’s Anna Schaffelhuber in the super-G in snowy conditions in Tarvisio on Thursday (26 January).
![Zviad Gogotchuri of Georgia](/sites/default/files/images/170125113322773_Zviad%2BGogotchuri%2Bof%2BGeorgia.jpg)
IBSA releases judo world rankings
Ukraine has the most top-ranked judokas with four, followed by South Korea with two.
![Downhill | 2017 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships, Tarvisio](/sites/default/files/styles/video_crop_16_9/public/oembed_thumbnails/5ENlV1k0c5bERXcyLLrnoMERQ4WmOGZVRvXdbBcO0ss.jpg?itok=ccOB09hw)
Bochet, Knight, Schaffelhuber golden at Worlds
Germany’s Anna Schaffelhuber also won gold alongside France’s Marie Bochet and the USA’s Andrew Kurka with downhill titles in Tarvisio, Italy.
![Three men in wheelchairs on a podium showing their medals](/sites/default/files/images/170125151925291_Leo_Pekka_Tahti_Rio.jpg)
Tahti first Finnish Para athlete named ‘Personality of the Year’
Paralympic table tennis silver medallists Andela Muzinic and Helena Dretar Karic were also chosen the best Croatian team in 2016.
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Nordic skiing Worlds to be streamed live
The 2017 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships will take place in Finsterau, Germany, from 10-19 February with 135 athletes from 25 countries competing.