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4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Athlete practicing para-canoe
Rio 2016

There will be three men’s and three women’s events in kayak when the sport makes its Paralympic debut.

a male Para ice hockey player
Para Ice Hockey

Sunday’s (1 February) game will feature a replay of the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games gold medal match between the USA and Russia.

The Netherlands' Jiske Griffioen poses her with her trophy after winning her women's wheelchair singles final against Japan's Yui Kamiji at the Australian Open 2015 Wheelchair Championships.
Wheelchair Tennis

Jiske Griffioen claimed her first ever singles Grand Slam title on Saturday (31 January) with victory over world No.1 Yui Kamiji.

Spanish wheelchair basketball team
Wheelchair Basketball

Twelve men’s and seven women’s teams will compete this summer in Worcester, Great Britain.

The IPC has decided that 22 sports will make up the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games sports programme.
Tokyo 2020

The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games will feature 22 sports, with badminton and taekwondo included for the first time.

Canada's Chris Klebl won the men's middle distance cross-country sitting at Sochi 2014.
Cross-Country Skiing

The last individual events at the 2015 IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships in Cable, Wisconsin, USA, will take place on Saturday (31 January).

Austria and Finland go head-to-head in January 2015's playoff to decide which team progresses to the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships B-Pool.
Para Ice Hockey

Both sides won one game each on Saturday in the three-match playoff to decide which side takes the final berth at March’s IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships B-Pool.

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Goalball

Seven teams will compete in Malmö, Sweden, with the three best winning promotion to division B.

Ukraine's Oleksandra Kononova won golds in biathlon and cross-country at the Cable 2015 Nordic skiing Worlds.
Cross-Country Skiing

A schedule change has also been confirmed for Saturday (31 January) and Sunday (1 February) at the 2015 IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships.

Under water shot, leads the pack
Swimming

IPC Swimming has published the Minimum Qualification Standards which sit alongside key qualifiers at the 2015 Worlds in Glasgow and other competitions.

Ukraine's Ihor Reptyukh was successful in the men's long distance biathlon standing at Cable 2015.
Biathlon

France, Russia, Finland and the USA also claim their latest medals in the long distance biathlon races at the 2015 IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships on Friday (30 January).

USA women's wheelchair basketball team
Wheelchair Basketball

The athletes will now prepare for this August’s Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games in Canada.

Kate Horan of New Zealand
Cycling

New Zealand Paralympian breaks near 12-year-old world record for the flying 200m.

Markus Swoboda of Austria
Canoe

Austria’s Markus Swoboda has won every world title since 2010 and hopes further success this year will qualify him for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Dylan Alcott celebrates winning his quad wheelchair tennis singles match against Great Britain's Andy Lapthorne at the 2014 Australian Open.
Wheelchair Tennis

The 24-year-old Australian will take on the USA’s David Wagner in his first Grand Slam final.

Two skiers behind each other on the slope
Alpine Skiing

Over 70 athletes from 16 countries will compete in one of the last high-level races before the 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships.

Two men in chairs smiling to the camera
America

Andrew Parsons, who is also the IPC’s Vice President, met with George Hilton on Wednesday (28 January).

Great Britain at the U22 IWBF Wheelchair Basketball European Championships
Wheelchair Basketball

Worcester Cathedral will stage the event on Friday 30 January as 20 teams start their preparations for Rio 2016 qualification.

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The IBSA organised meeting aimed develop the components of a sport specific classification system under the new IPC Classification Code.

Portrait picture of man doing a speech
Tokyo 2020

BWF President gives his reaction to para-badminton’s inclusion in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games ahead of Saturday's meeting to decide the final sports.