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4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Paralympic medallists Ben Quilter, Sophie Wells and Will Bayley
Great Britain

A number of British Paralympic medallists will join National Paralympic Day celebrations in Brighton, Nottingham and Plymouth.

Ukraine faces Japan during the Cerebral Palsy Football 7-a-side World Championships 2015 on 18 June in St. George’s Park in Great Britain.
Football 7-a-side

After two weeks of intense competition at the Cerebral Palsy Football 7-a-side World Championships find out who made the team of the tournament.

Three men in suits, one of them showing an award to the camera.
Azerbaijan

The award is bestowed upon heads of state who have contributed to the development of the Paralympic Movement.

Portrait photo of a dark haired man
VISTA

At October’s conference in Girona, Spain, David Sanz-Rivas, Scientific Director Royal Spanish Tennis Federation will talk about the athlete pathway from grassroots to elite performance.

Group shot on an athletics track
Lebanon

The National Paralympic Committee gathered together supporters and partners to offer try-outs of wheelchair basketball, table-tennis and football-5-a-side.

Two women smiling at each other in a swimmig pool after a race
Swimming

Ukrainian Yelyzaveta Mereshko is hoping to challenge the dominance of Great Britain’s multiple world and Paralympic champion at the swimming Worlds from 13 July.

Women runs on a blue track, looks focused
Athletics

Norman breaks 10-year-old women’s 800m T44 record by 10 seconds.

Man in wheelchair explains to audience
Powerlifting

Keen to get involved with para-sport ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, 16 new national referees received training and passed their exam.

World Anti Doping Agency's Logo.

WADA Talks is a new interview series to feature sport and government leaders

The IBSA European Goalball Championships will take place in Kaunas, Lithuania, Sabonis Basketball Hall and Kaunas Sports Hall, between 5-12 July and will act as a qualifier for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
Lithuania

The event which is a Rio 2016 Paralympic qualifier gets underway on 5 July in Lithuania.

Crowd of people from above, holding a huge banner with Rio motives
Rio 2016

Media can apply via the National Paralympic Committee in their country.

Football team lines up for team photo
Football 7-a-side

The defending champions beat Ukraine 1-0 in the final of the CP Football 7-a-side World Championships.

Ukraine's Vasyl Kovalchuk took gold ahead of Finnish world champion Minna Leinonen at a 2015 IPC Shooting World Cup.
Rio 2016

A number of great athletes are preparing themselves for three qualification World Cups, the first of which takes place in Osijek, Croatia, from 10 July.

Russia’s world, Paralympic and European long jump T38 champion Margarita Goncharova, gives an insight into her three heroes.
Athletics

After breaking the long jump T38 world record last week in Berlin, Germany, the T38 athlete shares with us her three heroes.

Two athletes doing taekwondo
Taekwondo

Behind the support of the National Paralympic Committee of Korea, the class will help develop athletes and the sport.

Dmytro Solovey of Ukraine and Sharif Khalilov of Uzbekistan compete in the Men's 73kg Gold Medal Contest at the London 2012 Paralympic Games
Judo

The new rankings take into account performances at May’s IBSA World Games in Seoul, Korea.

Bags with logos on a table
Rio 2016

The Agitos Foundation is working with Rio 2016 and the Brazilian Paralympic Committee to ensure a meaningful legacy for para-sport in the Americas.

The National Paralympic Day, held on 27 May at the University of Botswana, saw 400 athletes compete with 58 officials overseeing the competitions, which included athletics, wheelchair basketball and netball.
Botswana

National Paralympic Committee builds on momentum of Agitos Foundation’s Organisational Capacity Programme participation.

Football 7-a-side - Team Ukraine
Football 7-a-side

The defending world champions Russia will go head-to-head with European title winner Ukraine in Sunday’s final of the Cerebral Palsy Football 7-a-side World Championships.

Chuck Aoki
Wheelchair Rugby

The US wheelchair rugby player was recently referred to as an “Olympian.” He explains why that stuck out to him.