PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
![Australia's Janine Watson and Japan's Shoko Ota face each other as they adjust their helmets, preparing for their repechage match.](/sites/default/files/2022-05/Para%20taekwondo%20Tokyo%202020%20shoko%20ota%20janine%20watson%20.jpg)
Para taekwondo makes step towards equity at European Championships in Manchester
Decision to hold the Para Taekwondo and Taekwondo European Championships concurrently hails a new era in Para sports
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Boccia trailblazer Aziz looks for African breakthrough in sport
• The Johannesburg 2022 World Boccia Africa Regional Championships take place from 16-23 May
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Regional Championships: All you need to know!
Pyeongtaek, South Korea, is hosting the first out of four World Para Powerlifting Regional Championships in 2022 starting on 15 June
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Uzbekistan's Iskandar Tursunbaev receives ban for anti-doping rule violation
Para powerlifter returned adverse analytical finding both out-of-competition and in-competition in 2021
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World Para Swimming mourns the passing of Denys Dubrov
Ukrainian Para swimmer was a four-time Paralympic champion and took three medals at last year's Paralympic Games in Tokyo
![Andrea Lanfri steps on a rock as he adjusts his right prosthetic leg, with a bright orange tent on his right and heavy fog surrounding him.](/sites/default/files/2022-05/andrea%20lanfri%20italy%20climber%20climbing%20everest.jpg)
No peak out of reach for Para climber Lanfri
The 35-year-old is close to becoming the first Italian multi-amputee to scale the world's tallest mountain
![Brazil's Monique Oliveira laughs as she surfs a wave at Barra beach.](/sites/default/files/2022-05/Monique%20Oliveira%20surfing%20Brazil%20cerebral%20palsy.jpg)
ISA World Para Surfing Championship to return to California in 2022
International Surfing Association, AmpSurf and Pismo Beach set to host the 2022 championship from 4-11 December
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IPC launches PARA SPORT programme to grow awareness and participation in Para sport
• PARA SPORT’s narrative, “It Starts With Sport,” shows the value of sport through three core elements: awareness, community and freedom
![Alice Tai smiles as she holds up a bear mascot and her gold medal from the women's 100m freestyle S8 at the London 2019 World Para Swimming Championships.](/sites/default/files/2022-05/Alice%20Tai%20London%202019%20worlds%20mascot%20medal.jpg)
Eight-time world champion Tai on the transformative power of Para sport
'Go for it. The freedom of sport and how enlightening it can be is something which everyone deserves to experience in their life, regardless of their abilities.'
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Ten-year-old Ruf on track to continue great Swiss wheelchair racing tradition
Child prodigy and Marcel Hug's training ground partner proves it is never too early to take up Para sports.
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Wheelchair tennis star Montjane serves up stellar career after difficult start
"Never easy coming from this side of the world": Montjane talks about her rocky road to the top of the wheelchair tennis world and becoming a beacon for South Africans
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Kobe to host World Championships in 2024
The 11th edition of the Para Athletics Worlds is set to take place in Japan from 17 to 25 May two years from now
![Lauren Parker, wearing the Australian kit but no shoes, rides her handbike on a cement road during the women's PTWC final at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.](/sites/default/files/2022-05/Lauren%20Parker%20triathlon%20Commonwealth%20bike.jpg)
Australia's Parker makes history-making comeback to Ironman as Para triathlete
Paralympic silver medallist returns to the Ironman stage for the first time since the 2017 accident that left her with paraplegia
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Outstanding Ekler and Sabatini shatter world records in Jesolo
Italian athletes break one world and eleven national records as the World Para Athletics Grand Prix season makes a stop in Jesolo from 6 to 8 May
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Nigerian athlete receives ban for committing an anti-doping rule violation
Ifeanyichukwu Christian Madubuike will be ineligible for competition for three years from 23 April 2021 to 22 April 2024
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Behind the scenes of the Paris 2024 handover dance one year since its making
One week, 128 dancers, nine wheelchairs, sign language and a bionic arm: Learn the story behind the dance that stunned the world
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Birmingham 2022 unveils medals for Commonwealth Games
An all-female team designed the medals for the major multi-sport event, which will include more medal events for women than men for the first time ever
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Sabatini ready for new challenges with a 200m debut in Jesolo
Italian city is hosting its second World Para Athletics Grand Prix with athletes from 27 nations competing from Friday to Sunday (6-8 May)
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Tokyo 2020 unveils one-year anniversary emblem
Emblems created for the first anniversary of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games are part of the Tokyo 2020 Games One Year Anniversary Commemorative Project
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Grand Prix 2022 season update: Nottwil to host the third GP stop
The Swiss city is hosting the second Grand Prix event in May after Jesolo, Italy, taking on the stage from 6 to 8 May