PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Newest IPC members defy COVID-19
Since being welcomed as IPC members at the 2019 General Assembly, NPCs of Kiribati, Paraguay, Maldives and Malta have taken various initiatives to develop Para sports

A year like no other in Para snow sports
From history-making events to red carpets and dancefloors, here is a lookback at the most memorable moments of 2020

Host city of 2024 Paralympics creates ‘Paris + Inclusive’ project
French capital expresses intentions to make Paris an inclusive and accessible destination

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'