News - Vista 2017

a male Para swimmer holds up four fingers and his gold medal

Swimming

IPC podcast: Carlos Serrano on engagement

Swimming star and Tokyo 2020 hopeful talks about what drives him and also on being a father

YEARENDER 2020

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

Oksana Masters holding the Laureus Award

YEARENDER 2020

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

Football pitch being set up in middle of Paris

Paris 2024

Host city of 2024 Paralympics creates ‘Paris + Inclusive’ project

French capital expresses intentions to make Paris an inclusive and accessible destination

Alpine Skiing

Bauchet and Kampschreur golden return to where it all started

Nine-time Paralympic champion Henrieta Farkasova makes winning comeback after serious injury

Canadian male distance runner celebrates

Athletics

Riech following in family’s footsteps

World champion and Tokyo 2020 favourite’s athletics bloodlines run deep

Swimming

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

A female wheelchair dancer holding hands with her male standing dance partner on a dancefloor

Para dance sport

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

A series of glass sample tubes with blue labels

Athletics

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

Swimming

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

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'

IPC

A year in review by IPC Athletes’ Council Chairperson Chelsey Gotell

'The Athletes’ Council led and facilitated 10 workshops to gather a better understanding on ways athletes from all nations could express their views on key subjects at the Paralympic Games, while respecting the Paralympic Movement’s values and principles'