PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

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Media accreditation for the 2015 IPC Powerlifting Asian Open Championships now open

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Double Paralympians Ellen Keane and Darragh McDonald are joined by newcomers Ailbhe Kelly and Nicole Turner.

The 2013 IPC Wheelchair Dance Sport World Championships were held in Tokyo, Japan.

More than 160 athletes from 29 countries expected to travel to Italy hoping to win couples and singles titles.

Veronica Hipolito of Brazil set World Record over 100m T38 at the IPC Athletics World Championships.

After winning the 200m world title in 2013, the Brazilian T38 sprinter said her life changed forever.

Dmytro Vynohradets poses with his latest gold medal alongside the silver and bronze medal winners at the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships.

The most decorated athlete from the 2013 Worlds is giving little away about Ukraine’s hopes for the 2015 edition.

Paralympic medallists Ben Quilter, Sophie Wells and Will Bayley

A number of British Paralympic medallists will join National Paralympic Day celebrations in Brighton, Nottingham and Plymouth.

Ukraine faces Japan during the Cerebral Palsy Football 7-a-side World Championships 2015 on 18 June in St. George’s Park in Great Britain.

After two weeks of intense competition at the Cerebral Palsy Football 7-a-side World Championships find out who made the team of the tournament.

Three men in suits, one of them showing an award to the camera.

The award is bestowed upon heads of state who have contributed to the development of the Paralympic Movement.

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At October’s conference in Girona, Spain, David Sanz-Rivas, Scientific Director Royal Spanish Tennis Federation will talk about the athlete pathway from grassroots to elite performance.

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The National Paralympic Committee gathered together supporters and partners to offer try-outs of wheelchair basketball, table-tennis and football-5-a-side.