PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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World Rowing Championships showcase tough competition expected at Paris 2024
Norway's Birgit Skarstein won the PR1 women’s single sculls while Ukraine’s Roman Polianskyi topped the men's event at the 2022 World Championships in Racice, Czech Republic
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Catherine Debrunner makes marvellous debut at Berlin Marathon
Marcel Hug takes seventh triumph in the German capital with a dominant performance to complete a Swiss sweep in the wheelchair races
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Swan smashes eight-year-old record despite injured elbow as European Open begins
Ukraine leads medals table with three European champions from the country crowned after first two days of competition
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World medallists return to Tbilisi on a quest for European titles
Paralympic and world champion Mariana Shevchuk leads a team of Ukrainian female Para powerlifting stars
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WADA Executive Committee approves 2023 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods
The 2023 Prohibited List was approved at the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Executive Committee meeting this week and will come into force on 1 January 2023
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World Para Powerlifting joins UN SDG Action Campaign to 'Flip The Script'
Initiative to mobilise community to take action on the Sustainable Development Goals during European Open Championships in Tbilisi
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Over 70 Para sport and NPC representatives meet to discuss classification
Three-day classification meeting, held between 15 and 17 September, gave an opportunity for participants to share their experience and learn more about the new draft of the IPC Classification Code
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Vision and hearing-impaired archer strikes bullseye against all odds
Great Britain’s Richard John Nicholl and his coaches making history in improbable scenario
![Reigning Paralympic champions USA will return to one of their favourite venues where they have won gold medals in their last two trips to Ostrava.](/sites/default/files/2022-09/USA-CAN%20Ostrava%202021%20-%20Photo%20by%20Czech%20Para%20Ice%20Hockey.jpg)
World’s best return to Ostrava for International Para Hockey Cup
Nail biting contests on the cards as Paralympic and Worlds champions USA and silver medallists Canada meet again in a familiar territory
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Caironi embraces special friendship behind Italy’s 100m sweep at Tokyo 2020
Two-time Paralympic gold medallist Martina Caironi took silver behind her “sister” Ambra Sabatini in the women’s 100m T63, with fellow Italian and close friend Monica Graziana Contrafatto wrapping up the podium