Tag: Para Athletics
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Doha will stage IPC Athletics Championships
Germany, Jan 15, 2013: Doha, Qatar, will stage the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships, the International Paralympic Committee has announced. The event will be the last major gathering of top international athletes before the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games and is expected to attract around 1,300 of the world’s best athletes from 90 countries and will…
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London to host 2017 Athletics Championships
Bonn – Germany, Dec 19: After staging one of the best and most-talked about Paralympic Games in history this summer, London was announced as the host city of the 2017 IPC Athletics World Championships on Wednesday, 19 December. The Championships will be held in July 2017 at the Olympic Stadium, just a month before the…
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Six World Records Broken on Final Day
Stadskanaal, Netherlands, June 28, 2012: The best was saved for last in Stadskanaal, the Netherlands, as six world records were smashed on the final day of the IPC Athletics European Championships on Thursday (28 June) and Russia, Ukraine and Poland took the top three spots in the medal standings. Russia easily finished atop the medals…
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Field Events Highlight IPC Athletics European
Stadskanaal – Netherlands, June 25, 2012: Field Events, Three world and three European records were broken on Monday (25 June) at the second day of the IPC Athletics European Championships in Stadskanaal, the Netherlands, as several field athletes had spectacular performances. There were 31 medal events on Monday, and after two days of competition, Russia…