Healthy and Fit for Optimal Performance
4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Man in wheelchair on the ice, pointing on a point on the ice

German skipper Jens Jaeger believes Germany have what it takes to win the World Wheelchair Curling Championships in 2015, after qualifying in dramatic fashion.

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Egyptian athlete had won gold and set a world record in April 2014.

Ukrainian Ihor Reptyukh skis at Sochi 2014 followed closely by a competitor

The first IPC Nordic Skiing World Cup of 2014-15 will see world and Paralympic champions begin their preparations for the 2015 Worlds.

Ghana ChangeMakers

The latest national activity, supported by the Agitos Foundation, will feature three days of activities between 11-13 December.

The Irish runner Jason Smyth competes in the men's 100m - T13 heats at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

After each winning two European titles in 2014, both make the shortlist for the RTÉ Sport Sports Person of the Year.

Portrait picture of a women in Team USA uniform in front of a landscape

Team USA’s Elizabeth Broad, Senior Sports Dietician, details the benefits of vitamin D for an athlete

Women in white clothes holds a Chinese flag

Chinese athlete has a year to remember in 2014 winning world and Asian Para Games titles.

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Defending Parapan champion Cristian Dettoni amongst the line-up

Matt Formston and Michael Curran

Invercargill, New Zealand, stages its first ever UCI Para-Cycling C1 Track event

Talisson Glock Montreal 2013

Americans Kayla Wheeler and Robert Griswold and Brazilians Daniel Dias and Talisson Glock tear down regional records in Edmonton, Canada.

Little girls plays with football

Nottingham 2015 CPISRA World Games announces female CP Football camp

Tokyo 2020 react to the news that they have won the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Host city of the 2024 Games to be selected in the summer of 2017

Mac Marcoux in a close-up focussing on the slalom pole in front of him

More than 40 athletes will gather for the very first high-level race of the season from 9-10 December.

Blindfolded women and man crossing a finish line in a stadium

In front of a passionate home crowd, Clegg and Huggins won Scotland’s first Commonwealth track medal for 20 years

Young girl in a sled on the ice, smiling to the camera

Teenager scored four goals in the final as USA won the first ever IPC Ice Sledge Hockey Women’s International Cup.

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The international governing bodies of ice sledge hockey and able-bodied hockey have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote and progress sledge hockey.

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Margaret Duprey is aiming to raise USD 800,000 to help the US team in the lead-up to Rio 2016

A spectacular view of with Christ the Redeemer and Sugar Loaf in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Joint IPC and ITU project is aiming to make future Paralympic Games even more accessible to TV viewers

A woman raises her arms in celebration.

Elections, awards, nominations, technology and new publications all dominated the news this week.

Ukrainian Ihor Reptyukh skis at Sochi 2014 followed closely by a competitor

Ukrainian cross-country world champion Ihor Reptyukh cannot wait to get started on the road to Cable 2015 at the first World Cup of 2014-15.