PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Athletics

Colombian athlete was laid low for much of 2014 but is now fully recovered and keen to impress

Swimming

Fourteen athletes, including reigning world champions Jessica Long and Ian Silverman, make-up the A team for 2015.

Team for March’s event in the Netherlands features three reigning world champions.

Cycling

Opening of the Cisco Milton Pan Am/Parapan Am Velodrome marks six months until the Games begin.

Para Ice Hockey

Programmes in Italy, Norway and Croatia have resulted in the establishment of two new ice sledge hockey teams, regional development and increased public awareness.

America

Agreement means that bidding cities for the Pan American Games are also obliged to bid for the Parapan American Games as a “host city for both Games”.

Wheelchair Basketball

The President of the Gambian NPC hopes that the success of the festival will encourage regions to further develop para-sport.

Alpine Skiing

Austria’s Claudia Loesch and Matthias Lanzinger will race in super-combined, slalom and giant slalom races on home snow in Matrei.

Snowboard

Historic victories for American, Dutch, French and British riders at the para-snowboard World Cup in Aspen, USA.

Canada

Canadian Paralympic Committee CEO named to list by the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity.

Sochi 2014

The awards, presented in partnership with Allianz, will recognise achievements from the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games and will be awarded in November.

Para Ice Hockey

Sochi 2014 gold medallist says that although US ice sledge hockey team is physically stronger ahead of the World Championships it is lacking some experience

Sochi 2014

Find out how the winner of five Paralympic gold medals at a single Paralympic Winter Games goes about preparing for competition.

Germany

Forty six German para-athletes have been included in the Top Team which provides funding for their preparation for the Rio 2016 and PyeongChang 2018 Paralympics.

Swimming

Celebrating six months to go until the 2015 IPC Swimming Worlds, the competition schedule has been published.

Alpine Skiing

Men’s Sochi 2014 medallists recreate podium at the para-snowboard World Cup as Heidi Jo Duce and Nicole Roundy are also amongst those to finish in the top three.

Wheelchair Fencing

The public has until Monday 19 January to cast their vote from the six candidates.

New Zealand

Hill has been involved in para-sport since the mid-seventies and was Chef de Mission of the New Zealand team at 1992 Paralympic Games.

Para Ice Hockey

Reigning champions Canada will be joined by Russia, South Korea and the USA from 1-7 February.

Wheelchair Rugby

US wheelchair rugby player Chuck Aoki has come up with his list of must see events in 2015.