Tag Archives: Paralympians

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and Ottobock have extended their worldwide partnership until the end of 2020. An international partner since 2005 and the longest serving partner to the Paralympic Games, Ottobock has provided technical services for equipment used by Paralympians since the Seoul 1988 Paralympic Games, where the company’s ‘Passion for Paralympics’ was born. Today Ottobock’s Sportsline provides the equipment for Para athletes ... Read More »

The eyes of the world have been on Rio de Janeiro over the past few days as the 2016 Olympic Games plays out, and while the athletes to have garnered so much recent attention will soon be returning home, the Brazilian city will be preparing to welcome many more sporting champions. On 7 September, the Paralympic Games will begin and ... Read More »

Wimbledon Champions Gordon Reid, Alfie Hewett and Jordanne Whiley have shown their support towards the Tennis Foundation’s new talent ID programme Push2Podium. The program was launched this weekend at the British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships. Reid, Hewett and Whiley all hope the programme will encourage and inspire more disabled people to play wheelchair tennis, and in turn find the next ... Read More »

A nine-year-old pupil with cerebral palsy met three of his wheelchair basketball idols on Monday 18 July, at a session specially organised so he could play a match with his school friends. Finn O’Neill, who attends St Mark’s CofE Primary School in Eccles, was also given an entry level multi sports wheelchair by British Wheelchair Basketball’s education partner Youth Sport Direct. The ... Read More »

Five Para athletes have been shortlisted for the Allianz Athlete of the Month poll for April 2016, and the public are now invited to vote for their favourite via www.paralympic.org. The nominations are: Maxime Guerin, archery, France The 21-year-old secured a fourth qualifying spot for France at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games after winning the men’s recurve open at the ... Read More »

The London Titans, one of the country’s leading wheelchair basketball teams, will be able to help more players experience the sport, thanks to the support of a charity.   Path to Success has chosen the club as its annual cause and is raising money to buy special wheelchairs for the club, which plays in the National Super League and has ... Read More »

Two of the UK’s most talented disabled sportswomen have secured vital sponsorship to help them pursue their international careers. Wheelchair tennis champion Jordanne Whiley and teenage athlete Julie Rogers are both now being backed by leading disability insurance specialist, Fish Insurance. Knowing the difficulties that disabled athletes face in funding their training and competitive activities, the company offered the duo support ... Read More »

Prince Harry and Prince Edward, The Earl of Wessex, have announced they are to support Great Britain’s National Paralympic Day, due to take place at the end of this month. Both are heavily involved in supporting disability sport, with Prince Harry being an active figure in the Invictus Games – an competition for wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women from ... Read More »

Paralympic champions Jonnie Peacock and Hannah Cockroft claimed golds as GB won 15 medals on the first day of the IPC Athletics European Championships.  Amputee sprinter Peacock triumphed in the T44 100m to complete the set of European, Paralympic and World titles. Wheelchair racer Cockroft, 22, did the same in the T34 100m, finishing 1.4 seconds ahead of the rest of ... Read More »

THE CENTENARY Pavilion at Leeds United’s Elland Road stadium will be the venue for Disability Sport Yorkshire’s 21st annual awards dinner next month. The Wakefield-based charity will be celebrating the achievements of people with disabilities across Yorkshire at the event on Friday September 12. Paralympians Hannah Cockroft MBE and Danielle Brown MBE will be introducing the event. It will be hosted ... Read More »

A centre to inspire future paralympians is to be built in Kent, it has been announced. Known as iSparc, it is to be built in the grounds of Ifield Foundation Special School in Gravesend and aims to build on Kent’s Paralympic legacy. The venue for disability sports, art and cultural centre was given the go-ahead by Kent County Council. Facilities ... Read More »

Members of Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby will attend this year’s Naidex National. They will be appearing as guests of Roma Medical (stand B140), who have been developing specialist youth chairs for the organisation.  Naidex takes place at the NEC Birmingham from 30 April to 2 May. Read More »