PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Canadian Paralympic Committee and Fasken Martineau announce new partnership
Official Legal Partner brings legal expertise and fundraising component to Paralympic Movement

Fixtures for Ostersund 2015 published
Six teams will compete at the 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships B-Pool which open on Sunday 15 March.

Marcoux wins downhill gold at Panorama 2015
Canada’s Mac Marcoux took the title for the hosts as Austrian Claudia Loesch fulfilled her dream, taking her first downhill World's title.

IPC Athletics classifier training takes place in Dubai
Training took place to coincide with the first IPC Athletics Grand Prix of the season.

Paralympic champions fastest in Worlds downhill training
France’s Marie Bochet and Germany’s Anna Schaffelhuber set the quickest times in the first downhill training run of Panorama 2015.

Rosters confirmed for Ostersund 2015
Players for Poland, South Korea, Great Britain, Slovakia, Austria and hosts Sweden have been announced.

PyeongChang 2018 completes the ‘Accessibility Manual’
By completing the manual the organising committee aim to accelerate its preparation for the Paralympic Winter Games

Loesch dreaming of downhill gold at Panorama 2015
Austrian sit-skier is the defending champion in super-combined, giant slalom and super-G but wants the speed title to complete her collection.
South Africa qualify for men’s and women’s World Group II
After beating Morocco, the nation will now play in the World Group II at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup in Turkey on the 25-31 May.

Panorama 2015 to get underway with downhill
A host of Paralympic and world champions from 23 countries are ready to go for the first gold medals at the 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships.