PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
![Para Snowboarder Sandrine Hamel in action at PyeongChang 2018](/sites/default/files/2022-02/Sandrine-Hamel.jpg)
Canadian Snowboarder Sandrine Hamel’s spirit of adventure
From dirt bikes to drums, Hamel cannot resist a challenge
![IPC Chief Membership and Impact Officer Kristina Molloy](/sites/default/files/2022-02/Kristina-Molloy.jpg)
IPC appoint Kristina Molloy as Chief Membership and Impact Officer
Molloy has held various leadership roles promoting accessibility and disability inclusion within the Government of Canada and the Paralympic Movement
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Sport Week: Ones to watch for Para Snowboard
The youngest sport at the Winter Paralympics has some top athletes
![A banner with a female Para swimmer and the announcement of the Manchester 2023 Para Swimming World Championships](/sites/default/files/2022-02/WPS%202023%20key%20visual%20%281%29.jpg)
Manchester announced as host city for 2023 Para Swimming World Championships
It will be the 11th edition of the competition and the third to take place in Great Britain following Glasgow 2015 and London 2019
![A man on a snowboard with his arms stretched going into the curve.](/sites/default/files/2022-02/rsz_dsc_0445.jpg)
Superb Ben Tudhope storms to Crystal Globe glory at Big White World Cup
Australian takes the men's overall SB-LL2 title in Canada as riders deliver exciting performances ahead of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics
![🤓 We Know You Didn't Know - Para Snowboard 🏂 | Beijing 2022](/sites/default/files/styles/video_crop_16_9/public/oembed_thumbnails/xi7PI7ljYDPsvGxWT0TSHqZdkztftM7vtxis_Pn8Rmg.jpg?itok=RRE-zgLG)
Sport Week: 10 things to know about Para Snowboard
The sport first featured at the Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, in 2014
![Cato Zahl Pedersen](/sites/default/files/2022-02/Pedersen%203.jpeg)
Amazing adventures of Norway legend Pedersen
From Antarctica to Everest, seven-time Paralympian has always liked a challenge
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Paralympic champion Brian McKeever featured in Toyota's emotional Super Bowl ad
The Canadian vision impaired skier is the most decorated male cross-country Paralympian in history
![A Para ice hockey player celebrates a game win](/sites/default/files/images/170418125247210_Andrea%2BMacri%2BItaly.jpg)
Wine-lover Andrea Macri hopes 2022 is vintage year for Para Ice Hockey
Italy defender on a mission to raise awareness of his sport at Beijing 2022 ahead of Milano-Cortina 2026
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Tunisian athlete Yassine Gharbi suspended three years for anti-doping rule violation
Tunisian Para athletics athlete returned an adverse analytical finding in an Out-of-Competition test on December 2020
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Sport Week: Ones to watch for Para Ice Hockey
Eight teams will go for glory at the Beijing National Stadium from 5-13 March
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Big White ready for Crystal Globe decider
Canadian ski resort hosts the last Para snowboard World Cup of the season with two snowboard cross events on 11 and 12 February
![Man with right arm impairment hits a return shot in table tennis](/sites/default/files/2019-09/DE-LA-BOURDONNAYE-Gilles.jpg)
Paralympic champion Bourdonnaye appointed as Paris 2024 Table Tennis Sport Manager
Bourdonnaye is one of the most successful table tennis players ever with three Paralympic golds and three World titles
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Al Ain gets ready for the World Championships
UAE to host around 300 athletes from more than 50 nations in the first edition to take place in the Middle East from 3 to 17 November
![A man with two ski's and one stick in his right hand goes downhill on the snow circuit](/sites/default/files/2022-02/rsz_151821614907_da31f98134_o.jpg)
Lillehammer strike inspires Lekomtsev for Beijing
RPC Nordic skier only athlete across all sports to leave Para Snow Sports Worlds with a perfect record of winning every event in his class
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Sport Week: 10 things to know about Para Ice Hockey
Para ice hockey will make its eighth Paralympic appearance at Beijing 2022
![Zebastian Modin, guided by Emil Joensson, swept all cross-country races at the 2018/19 World Cup in Ostersund](/sites/default/files/images/190121130213505_Nordic-Skiing-Ostersund.jpg)
Zebastian Modin embraces big challenges as he plans for fourth Winter Paralympics
Swedish Nordic skier describes health and guide issues as a ‘few bumps in the road’
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IDB and IPC launch initiative to further develop Para sports in the Americas
NPC Colombia to mentor Guatemala, Paraguay, and Trinidad and Tobago
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Sport Week: Ones to watch for Para Cross-Country skiing
Champions and hopefuls - here are the Para Cross-Country skiers to keep an eye on
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P&G awards grants to Paralympian-supported charities through Athletes for Good fund
Athletes’ charities to receive share of USD 400,000 thanks to joint initiative by IPC, P&G and IOC