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Accessible facilities at Asian Para Games

1 November 2023

Competitors take part in the lawn bowls competition at the 4th Asian Para Games, Hangzhou, Oct. 21, 2023. Hangzhou Wenhui School, which is hosting the event, is the first venue in the history of the Asian Para Games to be transformed from a school playing field. The...

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IPC staff take on Bonn marathon

4 May 2019 |

The roles were flipped for staff of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) who took part in Sunday's Deutsche Post Marathon Bonn. At the German city’s most popular event, 19 employees became the athletes. They shut down their computers, turned off their work...

Misato Michishita targets triple triumph

4 May 2019 |

More than 5,800 miles separate Paralympic medallist Misato Michishita’s home town in Japan from the city of London, but the streets of the UK capital have been a regular home-from-home for the 42-year-old vision impaired athlete in recent years. Wins in 2017 and 2018...

David Weir relishing return to racing

4 May 2019 |

Car accidents, illness and a badly infected blister may not sound like the ideal preparation ahead of racing a marathon, but for six-time Paralympic champion David Weir they are obstacles he has merely shrugged off ahead this Sunday’s World Para Athletics Marathon...

Manuela Schaer makes it spectacular six in London

4 May 2019 |

Swiss star Manuela Schaer notched up a phenomenal sixth consecutive major marathon victory as she claimed World Championship gold in the women’s marathon T54 in London on Sunday. The 34-year-old – who has won every major race since the Berlin Marathon last September,...

Vinicius Rodrigues ready to make dream come true

4 May 2019 |

Brazilian sprinter Vinicius Rodrigues has big ambitions. Ever since lying in a hospital bed, after a motorcycle accident in 2014 which resulted in the amputation of his left leg above the knee, winning major titles has been his dream. “That's definitely a picture I...

IPC campaign wins United Nations award

4 May 2019 |

The International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC’s) ‘Transforming Lives Makes Sense for Everyone’ campaign, which showcases the employment legacy of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, has won a prestigious international award. The digital campaign - produced in...

Dominik Hasek relishes Ostrava 2019 role

4 May 2019 |

Four months ago, Olympic champion and two-time Stanley Cup champion goaltender Dominik Hasek was announced as an ambassador for the 2019 World Para Ice Hockey Championships in the Czech Republic. “The Dominator,” as they call him, then immediately tried out the sport...

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