First there was the Paralympics 2012 which mesmerized over a billion TV viewers. Then came the Invictus Games, Prince Harry’s successful international multi-sports event to celebrate the agility and sporting prowess of wounded and disabled servicemen and women. Now Powerful Media, in partnership with Shaw Trust, are proud to announce the launch of Power 100: The most influential people in ... Read More »
The International Paralympic Committee governing board will meet in Berlin on Tuesday, 7 October to discuss which sports should be included in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic programme. Twenty-four sports are in the running for 2020, including the 22 that will feature at Rio 2016 together with para-badminton and para-taekwondo. A maximum of 23 sports can be included in the Tokyo ... Read More »
A major cash injection will offer hundreds more visually impaired people across the country access to an exciting team sport. Goalball UK, the governing body for goalball, has received a £250,000 grant from Sport England after it hit its three year participation target in just twelve months. Goalball is the only Paralympic team game for partially sighted and ... Read More »
Great Britain’s double world and Paralympic champion Hannah Cockroft has dominated the T34 sprints since bursting on to the international circuit five years ago. Now the 22-year-old has set herself a new challenge as she goes for gold in the 800m, as well as the 100m, at the Swansea 2014 IPC Athletics European Championships which start on Monday (18 August).With ... Read More »
Paralympic medallists Dan Greaves, Mickey Bushell, David Devine and Abdi Jama have today called on their hometowns of Birmingham and Liverpool to come out and show their support for local Paralympic athletes by getting involved with a special day of activities to celebrate National Paralympic Day on Saturday August 30. Centenary Square in Birmingham and at Chavasse Park, Liverpool ... Read More »
A joint venture from Dorset Orthopaedic and Ottobock provides Emily Harris with a revolutionary sports blade so she can continue to pursue her Paralympic swimming dream. Emily, aged 16, is a Paralympic standard swimmer and is earmarked for the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. Born without the Tibia in her right leg, Emily had her right leg amputated through ... Read More »
The British Paralympic Association has today signed an agreement with the City of Belo Horizonte and the State Government of Minas Gerais that will see ParalympicsGB train and prepare in the city in the lead up to the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games that will take place between 7th – 18th September 2016. Following major accessibility upgrades, the Universidade Federal ... Read More »
An inspirational Leicester teenager has set his sights on paralympic glory after transferring his basketball skills to a new sport. Read More »
British skier Jade Etherington has won her third medal of the Winter Paralympics with silver in the visually impaired slalom. Read More »
Great Britain’s wheelchair curlers suffered a dreadful morning at the Ice Cube Curling Centre with a heavy 13-4 defeat to Finland. GB never got into gear against a side who had lost their opening four games. They also had the disruption of skip Aileen Neilson leaving the ice at the halfway point. On the ski slopes, the super combined event at Rosa Khutor ... Read More »
Russia will welcome the sporting world back to Sochi on Friday for the Winter Paralympics opening ceremony. Less than a fortnight after the Winter Olympics ended, 575 athletes from 45 countries will compete for 72 gold medals in five sports over 10 days. That’s the largest number of athletes and countries to take part in the event since it was first held ... Read More »
La Manga Club helped play a part in Great Britain’s memorable Davis Cup victory against America this month, and the country’s leading wheelchair tennis players are hoping the top Spanish resort will inspire them to similar success – ultimately at the 2016 Paralympics. Read More »
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