PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Bauchet and Kampschreur golden return to where it all started
Nine-time Paralympic champion Henrieta Farkasova makes winning comeback after serious injury

Riech following in family’s footsteps
World champion and Tokyo 2020 favourite’s athletics bloodlines run deep

IPC podcast: Husnah Kukundakwe on representation
Ugandan teenage swimmer has ambitions for Tokyo 2020 but also sees her role in society on a bigger scale

The year Para dance sport took over TV shows
Bonn 2019 world champions join Korean celebrities and Norway fall in love with a Para Nordic skier and rower turned wheelchair dancer

Iranian Para athlete Hamid Eslami suspended for anti-doping rule violation
Iranian runner returned an adverse analytical finding for a prohibited substance in an out of competition test

2021 World Series provisional calendar announced
For the first time the Para swimming series will take place in the year of the Paralympic Games

IPC publish its 2019-2020 Annual Report
'Our role in transforming the world through sport has never been more needed or urgently required for the world’s largest marginalised community'

A year in review by IPC Athletes’ Council Chairperson Chelsey Gotell
'The Athletes’ Council led and facilitated 10 workshops to gather a better understanding on ways athletes from all nations could express their views on key subjects at the Paralympic Games, while respecting the Paralympic Movement’s values and principles'

Yanina Martínez on a learning pathway
Paralympic champion adapts to new reality after coronavirus outbreak