Para sport & Paralympic News
- Anna Schaffelhuber completes quest for five golds 16.03.2014 For the second straight Winter Paralympics, a female skier won five alpine golds.
- Andrea Rothfuss grabs first career Paralympic gold 12.03.2014 With a victory in the women's standing slalom, the German alpine skier had the best day of her career in Sochi.
- McFadden, Eskau to highlight cross-country skiing opener 08.03.2014 The first day of Sochi 2014 cross-country skiing will feature the men’s and women’s long-distance sitting events.
- Top 14 dual-sport athletes at Sochi 2014 03.03.2014 Find out which 14 Sochi 2014 athletes have also competed on the international stage in summer sports.
- IPC reveals three Paralympic Hall of Fame inductees 27.02.2014 Find out which two athletes and which coach will be inaugurated during the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.
- Vote now for January’s Athlete of the Month 03.02.2014 Nominees for the award include: Alena Kaufman, Shingo Kunieda, Roman Petushkov, Markus Salcher, Anna Schaffelhuber and Mike Shea.
- Schaffelhuber makes it 11 World Cup wins from the last 12 31.01.2014 Vancouver bronze medallist now looks a strong contender for gold at Sochi after impressive start to 2014.
- IPC to stage major event in Berlin to mark 25 year anniversary 30.01.2014 The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) will stage a major conference for its membership in Berlin, Germany, this October to mark its 25th anniversary and plan for the future.
- World Cup wins for Rothfuss, Etherington, Salcher 30.01.2014 Swiss and Italian skiers also ski to victory in IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup in Tignes, France.
- Seventh heaven for Shingo Kunieda at Australian Open 25.01.2014 Japan’s Shingo Kunieda picked up his seventh Australian Open crown, as Germany’s Sabine Ellerbrock and the USA’s David Wagner also won titles.
- Germany podium twice at Nordic World Cup 24.01.2014 Home skiers Andrea Eskau and Vivian Hosch won short-distance biathlon podium places at the first day of races in Oberried.
- Biathlon World Cup finals to begin with night race 23.01.2014 Competitions begin with short distance races under cover of darkness in Oberried, Germany.
- Website for 2014 shooting worlds goes live 22.01.2014 IPC Shooting launches website as the place to go for information, news and updates about the 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships which take place in July in Suhl, Germany.
- Cross-country Nordic World Cup finals conclude 20.01.2014 Last day of competitions sees Norway’s Mariann Marthinsen and Russians Stanislav Chokhlaev, Roman Petushkov, Elena Remizova, Rushan Minnegulov and Alena Kaufman crowned as overall cross-country...
- Rush of European and Asian skiers make World Cup podium 18.01.2014 Japanese, Swedish, French, Norwegian and German athletes haul six podium places at IPC Nordic Skiing World Cup in Oberstdorf, Germany, including first place for home skier Andrea Eskau.
- Canadian Nordic skiers break through at World Cup finals 17.01.2014 Two first places for Brian Mckeever and Chris Klebl in long distance freestyle races at cross-country World Cup finals.
- Wheelchair fencing year to kick off in Malchow 15.01.2014 Germany's Simone Briese-Baetke will approach the first major wheelchair fencing event of 2014 with steely determination in her home country.
- Bochet, Schaffelhuber and Salcher all winners at IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup 11.01.2014 French skier Bochet continues where she left off in 2013 on a day when American skiers excelled.
- Andrea Eskau picks up second cross-country win 10.01.2014 Germany's Eskau concludes the cross-country races with a clean-sweep as Ukraine begin to challenge the Russians at the IPC Nordic Skiing World Cup in Vuokatti, Finland.
- Vote now for December’s Athlete of the Month 10.01.2014 Nominees for the award include: Jing Rong, Nadiia and Ivan Sivak, Alena Kaufman, Andrea Rothfuss and Mokrane Mohamed.