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4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Ernst van Dyk
Wheelchair Tennis

World champion handcyclist is shortlisted on Sunday for Sports Star of the Year and Sportsman of the Year with a Disability at the SA Sport Awards.

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Wheelchair Rugby

Canada beat arch rivals USA in overtime in the semi-finals of the World Championships.

A yellow mascots and blue mascot with green leaves as hair stand on top of Rio's Sugar Loaf mountain.

New mascots, world titles, major announcements and awards all feature in this week’s top six stories.

David Wagner
Wheelchair Tennis

Third day of action decided the quads final and determined which players made it through to the semi-finals in the men's and women's competition.

Picture of a female wheelchair rugby player fighting for the ball.

The IPC’s No. 33 Moment of 2014 highlights how upskilling women is inspiring for the next generation of female athletes and leaders.

Skier in a sit-ski racing down a slope.
Alpine Skiing

Para-alpine skiing events are organised in three categories: sitting, standing and visually impaired.

Sir Philip Craven

Sir Philip Craven has been named "Innovator of the Year" by SportsBusiness International

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

Kunieda, Griffioen and Whiley all progressed to the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters semi-finals with wins on Thursday.

Wearing blue lycra outfits, two men lie in their handcycles on an open road with hills in the background.
Athletics

Ahead of the 2015 season, 17 Belgian athletes have enjoyed a week long training camp in Lanzarote.

Marcel Hug powers to victory in the 2014 IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Nottwil, Switzerland.
Athletics

IPC Athletics has announced the biggest year ever of events for para-athletics in the year before Rio 2016

A group of five men, three blindfolded and wearing football shirts, jump up and hug in celebration
Blind Football

A 1-0 win over arch-rivals Argentina means Brazil have now won four world titles in the last 16 years.

Hannah Cockroft lighting the heritage flame in a metal sphere
Sochi 2014

• The IPC’s Top 50 Moments of 2014 continue with British Paralympian Hannah Cockroft’s involvement in the first ever international leg of the Paralympic Torch Relay.

Two women in wheelchairs on a tennis court hold a trophy and smile to the camera.
Wheelchair Tennis

Shock on the first day of the 2014 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters, as Japan’s defending champion Yui Kamiji slips to defeat in the opening game

Sledge hockey players on the ice in action
PyeongChang 2018

Norway take a double win, but a victory for Sweden gives them their own edge in the overall standings.

A picture of a Wheelchair Fencer celebrating her victory
Wheelchair Fencing

Zsuzsanna Krajnyak was the star of the show as Hungary excelled on home soil in Eger, winning four titles.

No. 36 Beatrice Vio fences to gold after studious hiatus
Wheelchair Fencing

Having concentrated on schoolwork rather than wheelchair fencing in early 2014, Italian prodigy Beatrice Vio returned to win two titles at the European Championships.

Logo NPC Republic of Korea
Republic of Korea

Six South Korean para-cyclists took part in the final stretch of the tour, which covered 15,000km in a bid to promote Korean reunification.

IPC President Sir Philip Craven with Croatian Paralympic President Ratko Kovacic at the 50th anniversary of para sport in Croatia.
Croatia

The project, which was started in 2013, aims to develop sport for people with impairments, and has now been nominated for the ESA Best of Europe award

Sir Philip Craven speaking on stage
India

IPC President laid the foundation stone for a new Indian Para-Sports Academy on Tuesday (24 November).

A picture of a man skiing
Cross-Country Skiing

Norway’s reigning world champion Nils-Erik Ulset on the threat of Russia’s Azat Karachurin and Canadian Mark Arendz.