NEWS FROM THE AMERICAS

2017 Media Awards and BP Courage Award

The IPC opens nominations for 2017 Media Awards and BP Courage Award

Registration open for 2017 Paralympic Schools Week

Andrew Kurka of the USA competes at the Tarvisio 2017 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships.

Kurka prepares for PyeongChang with gold in his pocket

Jose Luis Campo, president of the Americas Paralympic Committee.

APC General Assembly candidates announced

Snowboarder on a slope

Canada Snowboard and CADS to develop Para snowboard

Football 5 referees trained in Italy and Colombia

Finals Brenna Huckaby v Cecile Hernandez-Cervellon | 2017 World Para Snowboard Championships

Second World title, but first as a mother for Huckaby

Man on snowboard rides down a snowboard-cross course.

Big White 2017: Dutch, US snowboarders golden

Jeff Sauer, coach of Team USA, in the preliminary game against Germany at the 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships A-Pool in Buffalo, USA.

Para Ice Hockey

USA Hockey, IPC mourns passing of Jeff Sauer

Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez, Canada’s Mac Marcoux and USA’s Andrew Kurka

Voting open for Americas ‘Athlete of the Month’

Man on snowboard flies over a jump

Carlos Codina riding solo at Big White 2017

Amy Purdy

Purdy ‘grateful’ to return in time for Worlds

Collage of five images of athletes

Vote now for the Allianz Athlete of the Month – January 2017

Samantha Bosco of the USA competes in the women's C5 3000m individual pursuit track cycling at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

US team named for track World Championships in LA

American rider Mike Schultz had an incredible debut at the para-snowboard World Cup in Landgraaf, the Netherlands.

Three things Mike Schultz does off snow

A visually impaired skier takes a bend

Skiers Marcoux, Farkasova storm to quadruple gold