PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
Faces of the future: Brazil’s Veronica Hipolito
After winning the 200m world title in 2013, the Brazilian T38 sprinter said her life changed forever.
Vynohradets modest about team’s Glasgow 2015 chances
The most decorated athlete from the 2013 Worlds is giving little away about Ukraine’s hopes for the 2015 edition.
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.
Mereshko has Simmonds in her sights at Glasgow 2015
Ukrainian Yelyzaveta Mereshko is hoping to challenge the dominance of Great Britain’s multiple world and Paralympic champion at the swimming Worlds from 13 July.
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.