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4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Ice Sledge Hockey Korea
Para Ice Hockey

South Korea’s ice sledge hockey team is keen to win the 2015 World Championships B-Pool, in the hope of bouncing back to the A-Pool in 2017 in time for their home Winter Paralympics.

Children at the Tokyo International School celebrate 2000 days before Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
Tokyo 2020

School children in the Japanese capital marked the landmark by trying out football 5-a-side with international players.

Brody Roybal - Ice Sledge Hockey
Para Ice Hockey

The USA sledge hockey forward received praise for his Sochi 2014 efforts ahead of next month’s World Championships in Buffalo.

Mac Marcoux and his brother
Alpine Skiing

The second day of competition at the 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships will see the speed races continue with world and Paralympic champions in action.

Scott Reardon and Heinrich Popow
Athletics

Evan O’Hanlon, Scott Reardon and Richard Colman will headline the first ever Grand Prix to take place Down Under.

Russia's Alexey Bugaev won downhill in the men's standing at Panorama 2015.
Alpine Skiing

Alexey Bugaev and Ivan Frantsev take world titles, as France’s Marie Bochet and Anna Schaffelhuber also seal wins at para-alpine Worlds.

Leomon Silva of Brazil scored 51 goals at the 2014 Goalball World Championships
Blind Football

May’s event is expected to attract around 3,000 athletes from 80 countries who will compete in 10 sports.

Six men celebrating on a volleyball field.
Rio 2016

Thanks to support received from the Agitos Foundation, Rwanda expect to send an increased number of athletes to Rio 2016.

Women and man pose with a medal
Athletics

Ahead of the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Brisbane, world renowned para-athletics coach Iryna Dvoskina gives an insight into how she gets the best out of her athletes.

A woman in a wheelchair hits a tennis ball as a backhand.
Wheelchair Tennis

The world’s leading women’s wheelchair tennis player is aiming to stay top of the world in 2015.

Kimberly Joines
Canada

Official Legal Partner brings legal expertise and fundraising component to Paralympic Movement

Sweden's ice sledge hockey team
Para Ice Hockey

Six teams will compete at the 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships B-Pool which open on Sunday 15 March.

Mac and B.J. Marcoux
Alpine Skiing

Canada’s Mac Marcoux took the title for the hosts as Austrian Claudia Loesch fulfilled her dream, taking her first downhill World's title.

Athlete practicing alpine skiing in a sit-ski.
Alpine Skiing

France’s Marie Bochet and Germany’s Anna Schaffelhuber set the quickest times in the first downhill training run of Panorama 2015.

Sweden's ice sledge hockey team
Para Ice Hockey

Players for Poland, South Korea, Great Britain, Slovakia, Austria and hosts Sweden have been announced.

Members of the PyeongChang 2018 Organising Committee gathered to start 2015 with greater focus.
PyeongChang 2018

By completing the manual the organising committee aim to accelerate its preparation for the Paralympic Winter Games

Claudia Loesch of Austria
Alpine Skiing

Austrian sit-skier is the defending champion in super-combined, giant slalom and super-G but wants the speed title to complete her collection.

Kgothatso Montjane
Wheelchair Tennis

After beating Morocco, the nation will now play in the World Group II at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup in Turkey on the 25-31 May.

French skier Marie Bochet skied the downhill at Panorama 2015.
Alpine Skiing

A host of Paralympic and world champions from 23 countries are ready to go for the first gold medals at the 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships.

Beatrice Hess broke nine world records at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games
Swimming

With the World Championships fast approaching, will 2015 be the year that the oldest world records in history will be broken?