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4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Russia football
Summer Sports

The midfielder was oustanding in helping the Russian football 7-a-side team capture the world title.

Man in wheelchair poses in front of a wallpaper
Swimming

Mullen, Simmonds, Long and Pascoe, target gold medals on the first day of Glasgow 2015 on Monday (13 July).

A picture of a woman on a podium with a medal around her neck
Shooting

Paralympic champion Cuiping Zhang also helped her team to a new world record in Osijek, Croatia, a Paralympic qualifier.

Ukraine's Vasyl Kovalchuk took gold ahead of Finnish world champion Minna Leinonen at a 2015 IPC Shooting World Cup.
Shooting

Athletes from 48 countries – the most ever at a World Cup – will line-up for the first Paralympic qualifier of 2015.

Portrait pictures of two men with two company logos
Tokyo 2020

The Japanese pay TV broadcaster will produce a number of documentaries following the journey of para-athletes ahead of Tokyo 2020.

Olga Sviderska, Ukraine
Swimming

Ukrainian defending seven world titles at the 2015 IPC Swimming Worlds from 13 July.

Chloe Davies and Amy Marren
Great Britain

The youngster returned to the pool to mark 10 years since London won the right to stage the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

A para-triathlete closes his eyes as he crosses the finish line and raises the finish line banner up in the air.
Triathlon

The German para-triathlete has dominated the men’s PT4 category, looks to show form ahead of World Finals.

London’s former Olympic Stadium
Athletics

The IPC Athletics Grand Prix final will be held on Sunday 26 July.

Great Britain's Hannah Cockroft on her way to a new 200m T34 world record in Nottwil, Switzerland in May 2014.
Athletics

Unbeaten in seven years, here is what the world’s best T34 wheelchair racer does on an average day.

2016 IPC Swimming European Open Championships in Funchal, Portugal
Swimming

The competition, the last major gathering of athletes ahead of Rio 2016, will run from 30 April-7 May.

Under the slogan “Now Dream, Tomorrow Paralympian!” 56 athletes with impairments and coaches from 10 different countries were invited, including Ecuador, Malaysia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
Archery

Young athletes from developing nations around the world attended the sports camp.

Chris Waddell
Alpine Skiing

The 12-time Paralympic medalist has taken on new challenges following his last Games in Salt Lake 2002.

Two swimmers smile at each other after competing at the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships
Swimming

TV coverage of the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships will also be available online with Spanish commentary.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
Rio 2016

The Inclusion of People with Disabilities Act will change the lives of people with an impairment in Brazil and will lead to increased funding in para-sport.

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

The duo will team up on the grass to defend their doubles title but have to get past the Dutch duo of Griffioen, Van Koot.

Sarah Storey
Cycling

Team of nine will head to Nottwil, Switzerland, for the Road World Championships which start at the end of July.

NPC Argentina relaunches new look website
Argentina

The new site includes all the latest information about para-sport in Argentina.

Kevin Paul of South Africa
Swimming

The returning men’s 100m breaststroke world champion wants the world to see the talent in his team.

The 1.3m² model of the under-construction Barra Olympic Park represents a real-life area of 1.18 million m²
Rio 2016

Updated video mixes footage of construction with computer-generated images to show how ‘heart of the Games’ will be.