PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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Top 50 Moments of 2017: No. 47 – Largest IWRF Americas Championship held in Paraguay
Host team makes first appearance at an international wheelchair rugby competition
![Marcel Hug - Para athletics - Switzerland](/sites/default/files/images/171115111118739_Marcel%2BHug.jpg)
Swiss Paralympic and Allianz extend partnership through to 2020
Agreement to help fund athletes trainings in the lead-up to Tokyo 2020
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Top 50 Moments of 2017: No. 48 – Development of female Para sport
Camps in Para ice hockey and wheelchair basketball held this year
![Costa Rica - Blind Football](/sites/default/files/images/171114134652590_Costa%2BRica%2Bchampions.jpg)
Costa Rica win Blind Football Central American Championships
Regional champions qualify for 2018 World Champs in Madrid, Spain
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World’s best snowboarders set for Landgraaf
Vos and Bunschoten to star on home snow
![a man a woman smiling with a gold medal and the Italian flag](/sites/default/files/images/171109095346434_Vio%2Bwins.jpg)
Rome 2017: Five things we learned
The key stories from the Wheelchair Fencing World Championships
![Japan’s Gurimu Narita competes at the 2017 World Para Snowboard Championships in Big White, Canada.](/sites/default/files/images/170213094457673_Gurimu-Narita.jpg)
Narita shows speed at Europa Cup
The Japanese snowboarder wins race and shows he can shake things up at the World Cup
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Duane Kale enters Attitude Hall of Fame
IPC Vice President named in New Zealand broadcaster’s 2017 class
![A general view of a street scene near the PyeongChang Mountain Cluster, host of the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games.](/sites/default/files/images/170301080950183_PyeongChang%2B2018.jpg)
UN General Assembly approves Olympic Truce for PyeongChang 2018
Truce will cover both Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games next year
![Ukraine's women celebrate the defence of their sabre team world title in Rome, Italy.](/sites/default/files/images/171113083204591_Ukraine.jpg)
Rome 2017: Ukraine’s women seal team gold
Top seeds saw off Italy to take sabre world title on final day of Wheelchair Fencing World Championships