PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
IPC Athletics launches new website design
The latest website development ensures the sport has the opportunity to showcase its own identity as the largest para-sport in the world.
Hug makes it three from three against Weir in Nottwil
On a thrilling day of athletics, Hug beat Weir twice whilst elsewhere there were five world records brokem at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix.
Media accreditation opens for Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Worlds
For the first time since 1994, the IWBF Women’s Wheelchair Basketball World Championships will be a separate event from the men’s Championships.
Vervoort marks comeback with European record in Nottwil
After being told she would never race again, the 35-year-old Paralympic champion broke the 16-year-old European record.
Van Rhijn hints at new horizons in Nottwil
The Netherlands’ superstar world and Paralympic champion sprinter will compete over 400m at the 2014 IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Switzerland.
Grand Prix power session to feature series of rivalries
The IPC Athletics Grand Prix moves to Nottwil, Switzerland, for the first European leg of the series, headlined by the Saturday evening session.
Cockcroft smashes 200m world record in Nottwil
First day of IPC Athletics Grand Prix also saw Marcel Hug beat David Weir over 10,000m
Nottwil Grand Prix to be family affair for Manuela Schaer
The T54 wheelchair racer will compete in front of a familiar crowd in the fifth stop on the 2014 IPC Athletics Grand Prix.
Chuck Aoki: Should the US ratify the UN Convention?
The wheelchair rugby player blogs about the first steps in changing perceptions in America about people with an impairment.
IPC encouraged by Rio 2016 progress
Two day project review in Rio concludes as IPC Vice President Andrew Parsons is appointed Chair of Rio 2016 Paralympic Integration Committee