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PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
Football 7 World Championships: Team of the tournament
After two weeks of intense competition at the Cerebral Palsy Football 7-a-side World Championships find out who made the team of the tournament.
IPC presents Paralympic Honour to Azerbaijan President
The award is bestowed upon heads of state who have contributed to the development of the Paralympic Movement.
Development of career pathways in wheelchair tennis to be VISTA 2015 keynote
At October’s conference in Girona, Spain, David Sanz-Rivas, Scientific Director Royal Spanish Tennis Federation will talk about the athlete pathway from grassroots to elite performance.
Lebanon hosts first National Paralympic Day
The National Paralympic Committee gathered together supporters and partners to offer try-outs of wheelchair basketball, table-tennis and football-5-a-side.
Mereshko has Simmonds in her sights at Glasgow 2015
Ukrainian Yelyzaveta Mereshko is hoping to challenge the dominance of Great Britain’s multiple world and Paralympic champion at the swimming Worlds from 13 July.
Norman and Pruitt break distance world records in Indianapolis
Norman breaks 10-year-old women’s 800m T44 record by 10 seconds.
New Japanese powerlifting referees qualified
Keen to get involved with para-sport ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, 16 new national referees received training and passed their exam.
WADA launches new video series
WADA Talks is a new interview series to feature sport and government leaders
IBSA Goalball European Championships lounge opened in Kaunas
The event which is a Rio 2016 Paralympic qualifier gets underway on 5 July in Lithuania.
Russia retain Football 7 world crown
The defending champions beat Ukraine 1-0 in the final of the CP Football 7-a-side World Championships.
Five storylines for shooting Paralympic qualifiers
A number of great athletes are preparing themselves for three qualification World Cups, the first of which takes place in Osijek, Croatia, from 10 July.
#SuperheroSunday: Margarita Goncharova
After breaking the long jump T38 world record last week in Berlin, Germany, the T38 athlete shares with us her three heroes.
Taekwondo classes to be held for Korean visually impaired students
Behind the support of the National Paralympic Committee of Korea, the class will help develop athletes and the sport.
New judo world rankings published
The new rankings take into account performances at May’s IBSA World Games in Seoul, Korea.
Road to Rio continues with Sao Paulo workshop
The Agitos Foundation is working with Rio 2016 and the Brazilian Paralympic Committee to ensure a meaningful legacy for para-sport in the Americas.
Giant slalom to attract more athletes to snowboard
Event to be added to the snowboard programme to give new athletes more opportunities to compete.
Botswana showcases para-sport
National Paralympic Committee builds on momentum of Agitos Foundation’s Organisational Capacity Programme participation.
Russia and Ukraine to face-off for world football title
The defending world champions Russia will go head-to-head with European title winner Ukraine in Sunday’s final of the Cerebral Palsy Football 7-a-side World Championships.
Chuck Aoki: Not an Olympian
The US wheelchair rugby player was recently referred to as an “Olympian.” He explains why that stuck out to him.
Anderson inducted into Hall of Fame
The Canadian wheelchair basketball ace was inducted into the Centre Wellington Sport Hall of Fame.