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4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Marie Bochet
Alpine Skiing

The IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup in Tignes, France, will see the first speed races of the 2015-16 contested.

Logo_International Sports Federation for Persons with an Intellectual Disability (INAS-FID)

The new partnership will help INAS launch innovative online services.

Man celebrates victory by raising football cup.
Blind Football

Morocco won the 2015 African Championship in Douala, Cameroon, and, with the Rio Paralympics ahead, looks at the future with optimism.

Grigorios Polychronidis
Boccia

Daniel Polychronidis lost his London 2012 Paralympic medal after a home robbery. But his son surprised him on Christmas 2015.

Two wheelchair rugby players fighting for the ball
Wheelchair Rugby

With the Paralympic Games coming up in September, here are the top storylines to follow.

Marie Bochet
Alpine Skiing

Paralympic and world champions Marie Bochet, Anna Schaffelhuber and Aleksei Bugaev add slalom wins to their giant slalom victories in Kranjska Gora.

National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) logo
Wheelchair Basketball

The new partnership will supply the US men and women’s national teams with basketball balls in preparation for Rio 2016.

A picture of a woman skiing on the slopes
Alpine Skiing

Downhill, super combined, giant slalom and slalom will all run according to schedule in February.

Melissa Perrine and Mitchell Gourley
Alpine Skiing

At the halfway point until the next Paralympic Winter Games, Melissa Perrine and Mitchell Gourlay are focused on their World Cup campaigns.

Jessica Long competes at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain
Swimming

Three reigning world champions, including 12-time Paralympic champion Jessica Long will look to gain a place for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

2015 Athlete Classification Code

After three rounds of consultation dating back to 2013, the IPC General Assembly approved the Code for implementation in November.

Dorottya in action in Hamburg

A network of players, coaches and more have been put together to help increase the involvement of women in the sport.

Canada and South Korea's ice sledge hockey teams
Para Ice Hockey

The hosts of the 2016 World Sledge Hockey Challenge, which gets underway on Sunday (17 January) reveal their squad.

Valerii Redkozubov of Russia
Alpine Skiing

The Italian skier took the first World Cup victory of his career over Russia’s world giant slalom champion in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.

Woman and man sprinting on a track side by side
Rio 2016

IPC selects 45 track and field stars who are likely to make a big impact at September’s Paralympic Games.

View on slopes in the sunshine
Alpine Skiing

A stellar line-up of athletes will begin their World Cup campaign, with action from Tarvisio, Italy, to be shown live on Rai Sport and at Paralympic.org.

Picture of four people cutting a red ribbon to open a new building.

The new building will be home to 30 of the 85 IPC staff members

Woman in rowing boat celebrating
Rio 2016

The athletes to look out for in the sport at September’s Paralympic Games include four from the single sculls, one mixed double sculls and one coxed four team.

View of the construction site of the Carioca Arena 1,2 and 3
Rio 2016

Carioca Arena 1, home of wheelchair basketball and rugby during this summer’s Paralympic Games is the largest in Barra Olympic Park and will host first test event this week.

Roman Rabl of Austria competes at the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympic Games.
Alpine Skiing

Austrian Roman Rabl is hoping to build on his first podium performances from the 2015 World Championships with World Cup success.