Vista 2019 - News

Wheelchair Basketball

USA’s wheelchair basketballers show form ahead of Parapans

In a warm-up for Toronto 2015, the USA’s men’s wheelchair basketball team won all five of their games in the four team tournament

A picture of a woman with a gold medal around her neck

Swimming

Strong British team named for Glasgow 2015

Eighteen world class swimmers with a host of Worlds and Paralympic titles between them will compete at their home Worlds in Glasgow, Great Britain, from 13-19 July.

A female shooter in congratulated by a medal presenter

Shooting

Vadovicova opens season with World Cup win

The first IPC Shooting World Cup of 2015 gets underway with victory for Slovakian Veronika Vadovicova, France’s Didier Richard and Azerbaijan’s Yelena Taranova.

Alyda Norbruis once more drew the Apeldoorn velodrome’s crowd to its feet with her thrilling win in the C2-3 Scratch Race.

Cycling

Norbruis earns third world title in front of Dutch crowd

UCI Para-cycling World Championships come to a close after four days of competition in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.

Goalball

IBSA World Games goalball schedule released

Fixtures will take place in Seoul, South Korea, between 10-17 May 2015.

Germany

BP signs up as sponsor of NPC Germany

Germany joins eight other NPCs to be sponsored by the IPC’s International Partner.

Swimming

Applegate grabs gold in Glasgow

The last day of the 2015 British Para-Swimming International Meet featured podiums for Great Britain, Norway, Canada, Israel, Italy, Singapore, Iceland and Spain.

Australia

APC Chief Executive stands down

After 12 years at the Australian Paralympic Committee, Jason Hellwig has left for pastures new.

Boccia

Perez hopes Dutch boccia team can bounce back from Beijing disappointment

World number two is excited for April’s European Continental Cup in Spain.

Slovakia’s Jozef Metelka ensured himself of gold in the men’s 4,000m pursuit race final in the C4 class at Apeldoorn 2015.

Cycling

UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships: Five champions hang on to their crowns

Saturday's winners included New Zealand’s Emma Foy, Australia’s Susan Powell, Great Britain’s Sarah Storey, Slovakia’s Jozef Metelka and Australia’s Michael Gallagher.

Cuiqing Liu has three Superheros: her mother, her coach and Guohua Zhou.

Athletics

#SuperheroSunday: Cuiqing Liu

Liu is the biggest threat to Brazil’s TerezhinaGuilherminaat Rio 2016 and this week tell us who her heroes are

Josh Pauls, Brody Roybal and Declan Farmer

Para Ice Hockey

Paralympic champions USA beat Canada 2-0

The Sochi 2014 gold medallists warmed up for April’s World Championships by completing a series whitewash of rivals Canada

Swimming

Russell and Firth swim to new world records

Great Britain’s Bethany Firth sets her third S14 mark and teammate Hannah Russell also hits form at the 2015 British Para-Swimming International Meet in Glasgow.

Colombia

IWAS appoints new Sport Science and Medical Officer

Colombian Dr Johnson Nino-Soto has been appointed on a four-year term

Table Tennis

Bayley targets European title before setting his sights on Rio

After winning the world title last year, the Brits says he has another dream to achieve

Athletics

Athletics education programme gathers pace

The latest training opportunity for classifiers and officials took place along the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Tunis, Tunisia, supported by the Agitos Foundation.