Healthy and Fit for Optimal Performance
4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

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Bonn, Germany - Brazilian swimmer Daniel Dias is the winner of the 2009 Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability Award. The award was presented by Laureus World Sports Academy members Sebastian Coe and Edwin Moses in East London, Great Britain.

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The first Co-ordination Commission for the Guangzhou 2010 Asian Para Games took place in Guangzhou, China, on 10 June.

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Bonn/Berlin, Germany – Today, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) officially announced that the International Paralympic Day 2009 (IPD) will take place in Berlin on 11 July.

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After the launch of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Academy on 21 May, the first IPC Academy programme took place at the University of Manchester, Great Britain, from 26-28 May.

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In a series of preconference sessions that preceded the Annual Meeting for the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) on 26 May in Seattle, USA, the focus of the third meeting turned to the Paralympic Movement and the strides made therein over the past few years.

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The Sport Science and Classification Committees both met in Bonn, Germany, last week to discuss various topics ranging from VISTA 2011, to the importance of a single approach of classification in the Paralympic Movement.

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Bonn, Germany - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) yesterday announced the creation of the IPC Academy, an initiative of the IPC in partnership with the World Academy of Sport in Manchester, Great Britain.

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