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World ParaVolley launches new website
New site can be found at www.worldparavolley.org

Lucerne to stage World Wheelchair Curling Championships 2016
It will be the fourth time the event has been held in Switzerland since 2002.

De la Puente and Lvova clinch wheelchair tennis junior masters titles
Both Martin de la Puente and Viktoriia Lvova beat their opponents in straight sets to clinch the title.
IPC and American College of Sports Medicine sign Partnership Agreement
Partners since 2006, the two organisations have agreed to work together identifying a number of collaborative areas through to after the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

O’Hanlon aims to write his name into history
Australia’s multiple-world and Paralympic champion wants to set a 100m world record that can never be beaten.

Penultimate World Cup slalom races decided
Victory for Canada’s Mac Marcoux over Russian Paralympic champion Valerii Redkozubov in St. Moritz.

IPC calls for final comments on Classification Code
Last call to submit feedback on the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) 2017 Classification Code.

Craig Spence: Are advertisers increasingly using disability to promote their products?
After this year's Super Bowl featured two adverts starring people with an impairment, the IPC's Director of Media and Communications, asks if a new trend is emerging.

USA goalball players aiming for gold at Rio 2016
The sport’s leading superpower has already qualified men’s and women’s teams for the first Paralympic Games in South America

Vote now for the Allianz Athlete of the Month – January 2015
The public has until Monday 9 February to vote for their favourite from the six candidates.
Brazil’s Jefinho focussing on Parapan American Games success in 2015
The Paralympic Pele looking to secure his third Parapan title in Toronto this August.

Paralympic champions back on top at World Cup Finals
The USA’s Tyler Walker, Austria’s Matthias Lanzinger and Great Britain’s Millie Knight also take giant slalom victory in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Wheelchair dance announces 2015 calendar
Five competitions make up the international schedule, including a new World Cup in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Canada, USA, continue build towards showdown
Nothing to separate reigning champions Canada and Paralympic champions USA at World Sledge Hockey Challenge as they both take wins on Monday (2 February).

Canada name new-look team for World Championships
Paralympic and world champions head to Finland looking to cement their position as the world’s best wheelchair curling team.

World, Paralympic champions toppled at World Cup Finals
Germany’s Andrea Rothfuss, Georg Kreiter and Austrian Claudia Loesch all take victory in giant slalom in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Norway enjoy success at ISAF World Cup
Norwegian sailors win two out of three disciplines at the ISAF 2015 Sailing World Cup in Miami, USA.

Month in para-sport review: January 2015
Your monthly recap of all the sporting events which took place last month.

Simmonds excited by new rivalry with Ukrainian
British Paralympic swimming champion says Yelyzaveta Mereshko will push her to the maximum at July’s World Championships in Glasgow.

Twelfth annual Dream Programme underway in South Korea
More than 170 athletes, including 26 from seven National Paralympic Committees, are taking part in the initiative which aims to develop winter sports.