PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
Six teams confirmed for Asian Blind Football Championships
The tournament will take place in Tokyo, Japan, this September with two teams qualifying for Rio 2016.
Three cities to host events for BPA’s National Paralympic Day
A number of British Paralympic medallists will join National Paralympic Day celebrations in Brighton, Nottingham and Plymouth.
Football 7 World Championships: Team of the tournament
After two weeks of intense competition at the Cerebral Palsy Football 7-a-side World Championships find out who made the team of the tournament.
IPC presents Paralympic Honour to Azerbaijan President
The award is bestowed upon heads of state who have contributed to the development of the Paralympic Movement.
Development of career pathways in wheelchair tennis to be VISTA 2015 keynote
At October’s conference in Girona, Spain, David Sanz-Rivas, Scientific Director Royal Spanish Tennis Federation will talk about the athlete pathway from grassroots to elite performance.
Lebanon hosts first National Paralympic Day
The National Paralympic Committee gathered together supporters and partners to offer try-outs of wheelchair basketball, table-tennis and football-5-a-side.
Norman and Pruitt break distance world records in Indianapolis
Norman breaks 10-year-old women’s 800m T44 record by 10 seconds.
New Japanese powerlifting referees qualified
Keen to get involved with para-sport ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, 16 new national referees received training and passed their exam.
WADA launches new video series
WADA Talks is a new interview series to feature sport and government leaders
IBSA Goalball European Championships lounge opened in Kaunas
The event which is a Rio 2016 Paralympic qualifier gets underway on 5 July in Lithuania.