Healthy and Fit for Optimal Performance
4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Rwanda - Sitting Volleyball - 2017 African Championships

Newly-founded organisation launches fundraising campaign ´Because I Can´ to grow the sport

a stadium at night

More than 300 hours of live coverage will be shown on paralympic.org

a female Para swimmer mid-butterfly stroke

Paralympic and world champions will debut in first of six meetings

A general view of a street scene near the PyeongChang Mountain Cluster, host of the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games.

PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games to get underway on 9 March

a female Para alpine skier in action

Alpine skiing super-combined and biathlon middle-distance champions to be crowned

a female vision impaired skier and her guide on the podium

Series focusing on relationship between vision impaired skiers and their guides continues

Woman in swimming pool, upper body is out of the water, smiling

Paralympic champion will be back in Rio to compete at 2018 Track Worlds

Man on snowboard turns on a banked slope

First medals will be up for grabs in snowboard at Winter Paralympics

a female Para sprinter crosses the line to win the race

The pick of the young athletes looking to make their mark this year

a female blind footballer takes a shot

National team defeats Argentinian club team Las Guerreras de Cordoba

Day 2 Highlights | 2018 World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup Kimberley

Alpine and Nordic skiing, snowboard and powerlifting World Cup winners crowned

Vision impaired skier and his guide going down a slope

Spanish alpine skiing Paralympic champion considers retiring after competing in PyeongChang

Two swimmers racing in a pool

World Series stop in Copenhagen to launch Danish swimmer’s busy season

Man in wheelchair dressed in a suit holding a trophy

Swiss wheelchair racer recognised for London 2017 and Marathon Majors achievements

IPC Academy - logo

The event-based learning initiative gives stakeholders of major sports events the chance to learn from peers

the official mascots of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Meet the Mascots!

Olympic and Paralympic designs chosen by Japanese schoolchildren

a group of Para athletes on stage

Delegation officially presented at ceremony in presence of Prince and Princess of Japan

a female Para sit skier

Alpine skiing and cross-country medals decided at Winter Paralympics

a blind footballer with his trophy

Costa Rican striker optimistic about team’s chances at blind football Worlds with 100 days to go

three male sit skiers on the podium

Paralympic biathlon medallist comes into Winter Games as major cross-country medal threat