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Vista 2017

Opportunities, Challenges in Paralympic Sport Science & Sport Medicine Support

20-23 September

VISTA 2017 - News

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a female and a male smile for the camera

Ann Cody and Miguel Sagarra receive Paralympic Orders

Movement’s highest honour awarded to Governing Board members

Will Bayley celebrates his 3-1 win against Israel Pereira Stroh BRA in the Men's Singles - Class 7

Table Tennis

Top European table tennis players seek titles

Sandra Paovic, Natalia Partyka and Will Bayley among big names to watch for

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Italy

First Italian Paralympic Centre inaugurated in Rome

Seven hectare site will host training for nine Para sports

a group of para ice hockey players fight for the puck

PyeongChang 2018

Ostersund 2017 schedule released

Opening day will feature two matches as five teams battle for final PyeongChang places

a group of three wheelchair athletes on the podium

Shooting

Veronika Vadovicova snatches dramatic win in Croatia

Slovakia’s Paralympic champion wins R6 in final round at Osijek World Cup

America

Paralympian Search to visit Vancouver and Toronto

Programme aims to identify future Canadian Paralympic stars

Norway's Birgit Skarstein, AS Women's Single Sculls heat, 2015 World Rowing Cup II Varese, Italy

Rowing

Sizzling start for Para rowers at Worlds

Rio medallists progress from heats on opening day of World Championships

A man wearing sunglasses

Athletics

Canada mourns passing of Paralympic coach Ken Thom

Athletics and Paralympic community pay tribute following death in South Africa

Para dance sport

Para dance sport athlete representative candidates announced

Paula Moulton and Sofie Cox running for election

a group of Para athletes giving out toys and food to children

America

Mexican Para athletes volunteer to help victims of earthquake

Supplies collected following disaster in state of Morelos on 19 September

Graphic of Tokyo 2020 emblem being transformed

Tokyo 2020

Tokyo 2020 unveils promotional graphics

Images will feature in forthcoming ‘1,000 days to go’ milestone event

a Para athlete sticks his tongue out as he crosses the finish line

Cycling

Jetze Plat powers through packed 2017

Dutch athlete preparing for Ironman challenge after winning three world titles

Two men signing a contract

The IPC and DB Schenker extend partnership through to 2020

The two German based organisations have been working together since the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games.

Vanuatu - athletics training camp

Athletics

Vanuatu to stage athletics training camp

Agitos Foundation to fund camp under the NPC Development Programme

Female shooter in wheelchair smiles after winning

Shooting

Pehlivanlar stuns Javanmardi in Osijek

The Turkish shooter upset the Iranian Rio 2016 champion in the P2 event

a male Para cyclist

Cycling

Worlds ‘just the beginning’ for Indian Para cyclists

Team hoping to build on Road World Championships debut

Stephane Houdet of France in action in his Men's Wheelchair Singles Final against Shingo Kunieda of Japan during the Australian Open 2015 Wheelchair Championships

Wheelchair Tennis

Stephane Houdet wins Sardinia Open

Frenchman extends winning streak in Italy after claiming US Open title

Justas Pazarauskas - Lithuania - Goalball

Goalball

Lithuania and Russia crowned goalball Euro champions

IBSA Regional competition concludes in Lahti, Finland, on 22 September

Para triathlon was contested at the Paralympic Games for the first time at Rio 2016.

Triathlon

2018 Para triathlon calendar released

Three ITU Para Triathlon World Series and six ITU Para Triathlon World Cups will be held

#FuerzaMexico - Fundraising Campaign

America

#FuerzaMexico: Paralympic Movement launches fundraising campaign for Mexico

In partnership with UNICEF, the IPC and Agitos Foundation aim to support humanitarian efforts after Tuesday’s earthquake