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4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Thomas Pfyl

With the IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships ahead, Switzerland’s Thomas Pfyl has poise on the slopes, backed up by a top coach and polished technique.

Kurt Fearnley

Fearnley's speech broadcast live to the whole of Australia

Russia's Nadezda Andreeva arrives at Heathrow airport ahead of London 2012 Paralympic Games

After two events, Russia is dominating the biathlon rankings ahead of the Sochi 2012-2013 World Cup Finals, which will also be a Paralympic Games Test Event.

Bibian Mentel-Spee

The world’s top para-snowboarders will meet in Sochi in March, for the first ever Paralympic test event in the discipline.

Ozzie Sawicki

Accomplished coach and sport leader Ozzie Sawicki will be Canada’s Chef de Mission for the Sochi 2014 Games.

A picture of a man in a wheelchair racing during an athletics event

Paralympian's 2013 Australia Day Address in full - a must read - a huge speech from a huge character.

Aled Davies

The Daily Telegraph’s sports reporter Gareth A Davies takes time to reflect on what the London 2012 Games meant to the Paralympic Movement.

A picture of man in a wheelchair playing a forehand in a tennis match

The Australian Open draw put London 2012 gold medallist Shingo Kunieda against defending tournament champion Maikel Scheffers.

A picture of a two men in sledges playing ice hockey

Greg Westlake and Karl Ludwig both recorded hat trick’s in Canada’s 7-1 win against Norway in the final game of their exhibition series.

A picture of a man in a sledge skiing

Thomas Jacobsen, former captain of Norway’s ice sledge hockey team, is now trying to qualify for Sochi 2014 in alpine skiing.

A picture of a woman swimming

Jessica Long, who won eight medals in nine events at London 2012, headlines the list of 16 athletes who made the US Paralympics Swimming National A Team.

A picture in a wheelchair celebrating a victory

Jon Pollock, captain of Great Britain’s wheelchair basketball team, is leaving the sport as an athlete but hopes to return to the court as a coach.

Russia's Alexandr Alyabyev at the 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup in St Moritz, Switzerland

After two events, the 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup now moves to Slovenia before culminating in Sochi for the finals.

Men's 400m T44 London 2012

USA's David Prince, a former drug dealer and dropout, inspired the world by winning bronze in the 400m T44 at London 2012.

Canada ice sledge hockey

Billy Bridges netted a hat trick in Canada’s 10-0 victory against Norway in the first of their three-game exhibition series.

Changing lives through sport

The IPC contributed to the fourth edition of the UNOSDP Youth Leadership Camp in Doha, where 29 young people from Africa and the Middle East developed a vision to improve their communities through sport.

A picture of a man in a wheelchair serving during a tennis match

The athletes competing in the first wheelchair tennis Grand Slam of 2013 were revealed.

A picture of a man in a sledge skiing

Japan’s Kozo Kubo won the men’s long distance biathlon to maintain first place in the 2012-13 IPC Nordic Skiing World Cup rankings.

Jochen Wollmert

International Fair Play Committee (CIFP) rewards the German table tennis player for his fair behaviour at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

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Sam Ingram, a London 2012 silver medallist, will compete against fully sighted judokas this weekend at the British Championships.