PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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Israel to stage 2019 World Team Cup finals
Will be the 19th country to host event since its inception in 1985
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IPC conducts first review of Paris 2024
Delegation including President Andrew Parsons visits city with six years to go until Paralympics
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Hosts wanted for IBSA goalball tournaments
Senior and youth events to be contested from 2018-2020
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Wheelchair fencing World Cup hits Montreal
Top-ranked athletes take on the third competition on the circuit
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Draw made for 2018 Wheelchair Rugby Worlds
Hosts and tournament favourites Australia lead Pool A
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Brazilian brilliance delights home crowd in Sao Paulo
National records tumble on opening day of World Series
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Heroic triumph for Veronica Hipolito in Sao Paulo
Brazilian sprinter wins Grand Prix gold despite imminent surgery
Cheongju 2018: Pistol preview
Iran’s Sareh Javanmardi can add to her historic pair of Paralympic golds
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Para dance sport breaks new ground in USA
Applications now open for first intro course to be held in the Americas
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Madrid 2018: Thai head coach sets bar high
Asian blind football team to make their debut at World Championships
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World champions head stellar Sao Paulo line-up
More than two hundred athletes set to compete at Grand Prix in Brazil
![a male Para swimmer laughs in the pool](/sites/default/files/images/180426112113137_Daniel%2BDias%2BSao%2BPaulo.jpg)
Daniel Dias starts World Series title defence
Brazilian Paralympic swimming legend will be the one to watch in Sao Paulo
Germany cautious ahead of 2018 goalball Worlds
Young team to contest men’s Championships in Sweden this summer
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Championships hosts wanted by INAS
Athletics and swimming competitions in Europe, Asia and the Americas head list
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Cheongju 2018: Top South Korean shooters
Hosts could celebrate World Championship medals
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Blind football heads to the USA
Developing camp looking to identify players and coaches to be delivered
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Programme leads ready to deliver OCP in East Africa
Representatives from six countries went through Organisational Capacity Programme training in Tanzania
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Para athletics in numbers: Brent Lakatos
The facts and stats behind the multi-world champion wheelchair racer
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NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters returns to USA
Year-end tournament celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2018
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Confident Camille Rodrigues ready to rock Sao Paulo
Brazilian swimmer is an Instagram sensation thanks to her dance moves