Paralympic Movement at a Glance: January 2015
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IPC activities IPC announces Ones to Watch for Rio 2016 In an effort to make it easier for the public and media to understand which athletes to look out for Entering the year of the Rio 2016 Paralympic at the Paralympic Games, the IPC announced Ones Games, IPC President Sir Philip Craven shared his to Watch in all 22 sports from 4-15 January. expectations for 2016. Find the complete Ones to Watch list here . Read Sir Philip Craven's full message here IPC reveals No.1 moment of 2015 IPC opens additional HQ building in Bonn Deals with NHK and Toyota came in as the top storyline of 2015, which was revealed on 31 December. The IPC had been counting down the Top 50 Moments of 2015 by publishing one moment through to 31 December on Paralympic.org. Read about the No. 1 moment of 2015 . Visit the IPC's dedicated website for the Top 50 Moments of 2015 IPC 2015 Athlete Classification Code The IPC officially opened a new Headquarters published building in Bonn, Germany, on 13 January. The The final version of the 2015 IPC Athlete building lies adjacent to the original headquarters Classification Code is out. The Code provides and will house 30 of the 85 IPC staff members. policies and procedures for classification that . More on the IPC's new HQ building should be common to all para-sports and the Paralympic Games. Issue: 8 - 19 January 2016 1 . Find the IPC Classification Code in the IPC National Paralympic Committees Handbook section 2, chapter 1.3.2. (NPCs) Final 2015 edition of The Paralympian out USA announce teams in cycling, swimming Twenty-nine athletes, including three reigning world champions, will make up the 2016 US Paralympics swimming national team. On the cycling side, 27 athletes, five reigning world champions, were named to the US Paralympics Cycling National Team. basketball squad to 16. The final roster for Rio 2016 will be revealed in June. The third and final 2015 edition of The Paralympian . USA's 2016 cycling team magazine was published online on 18 December, . wrapping up an action-packed year by featuring the last major competitions for athletes to qualify for Australian team named for Para-cycling Rio 2016, as well as historic deals that will impact Track Worlds the future of the Paralympic Movement. Cycling Australia announced a 14-rider team for the 2016 Para-cycling Track World Championships . Read the online version of The Paralympian to be held in Montichiari, Italy, from 17-20 March. magazine here . Australia's Para-cycling Track Worlds team cil IPC Athletes Council Chairperson Todd Nicholson Rio 2016 Paralympics to be shown on TVE in looks back on 2015 and what was brought up at the Spain; Spanish athletes to be better 7th IOC rewarded for Rio 2016 success what to look forward to in 2016. The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games will be broadcast . More on the IPC Athletes' Council review in Spain on Television Española (TVE), the national state-owned public service broadcaster. The announcement was made following the signing of a collaboration agreement by the presidents of the Higher Sports Council, Miguel Cardenal; the Spanish Paralympic Committee, Miguel Carballeda; Spanish Radio Television (RTVE), Jose Antonio 19 January 2016 2 Sanchez, and the Professional Football League, Chilean para-athletes were also recognised for their Javier Tebas. efforts in 2015, with national sports journalists making their picks. Elsewhere in Spain, the General Assembly of the Spanish Paralympic Committee agreed to . More on Israel's para-athletes of the year significantly increase the financial rewards for . More on Greek para-athletes being Spanish athletes who win a medal at the Rio 2016 recognised Paralympic Games. More on Chilean para-athletes being recognised . More on Rio 2016 broadcast on TVE . More on Spain increasing medal payments Swedish NPC partner with GHP; Swiss to athletes Paralympic, Swiss Paraplegic partner The Swedish Paralympic Committee and Global Israeli NPC names athletes of the year; Health Partner (GHP) partnered, giving para- Greek, Chilean para-athletes also athletes and students of the Elite Sports School recognised access to medical care and rehabilitation of GHP's clinics. Another partnership was seen between Swiss Paralympic and Swiss Paraplegic Foundation with the goal of enabling paraplegics to lead a self- determined life. More on the Swedish NPC, GHP's partnership . More on Swiss Paralympic, Swiss Paraplegic partnership The Ministry of Culture and Sport in Israel held a ceremony to choose Israel's athletes of 2015. The KPC celebrates 10-year anniversary ceremony was shared by Olympic and Paralympic The Korean Paralympic Committee (KPC) held a celebration ceremony on 25 November Minister of Culture and Sport. commemorating its 10-year anniversary. The ceremony included presentations of the The 62nd Panhellenic Association of Sports Press commendation for KPC founders, KPC Awards and annual awards in Greece in December recognised a the Declaration Ceremony of the new KPC Vision. number of leading para-athletes in the presence of sports and political leaders, sports personalities . More on the KPC's anniversary and the public. 19 January 2016 3 Colombia provides education on para-sport NPC Austria appoints Rio 2016 Chef de to future leaders Mission The National Paralympic Committee of Colombia Walter Pfaller was appointed by the Austrian began a programme for students to intern with the National Paralympic Committee as their Rio 2016 organisation. The internship programme is just part Paralympic Games Chef de Mission. e future . More on NPC Austria's Chef de Mission leaders of para-sport. Canadian sporting community mourns loss . More on NPC Colombia's initiative to educate future leaders of Jerry Tonello The Canadian para-sport community mourned the Wolf first para-sport coach to win German passing of wheelchair basketball coach Jerry Coach of the Year Justus Wolf, who coached the German para-alpine London 2012 Paralympic Games. skiing team, became the first para-sport coach to ity has lost one receive the German Olympic Sports Confederation of its finest coaches, a tireless mentor and a true Coach of the Year. More on Justus Wolf wheelchair basketball as both a player and a coach, and his ultimate passion was working his athl . More on Jerry Tonello International Federations (IFs) Athletics Grand Prix Final to take place alongside Diamond League; media The commercial partners of the British Paralympic accreditation for IPC Athletics Asia-Oceania Association pledged their support to help Championships open , British Athletics confirmed that the IPC Athletics existing commitments to support the British Grand Prix Final will take place on 23 July, Paralympic team over the course of 2016. incorporated into the Diamond League element of . More on the 'Supercharge' campaign the London Anniversary Games at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. 19 January 2016 4 Also, for the 2016 IPC Athletics Asia-Oceania Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Skiing World Cup wins in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, media are advised that they can now apply for on 16 January. The victories in slalom at the media accreditation via opening World Cup of the season add to the three www.dubai2016.org/media. pping performances in giant slalom from 15 January. More on the Grand Prix in London . More on media accreditation for Asia- . Review of the IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup Oceania Champs in Slovenia . Review of IPC Alpine Skiing Europa Cup in IPC Swimming launches classification Austria review; Jimi Flowers Classic concludes . St. Moritz prepares to host World Cup 22- IPC Swimming announced the start of a three-year 23 Jan. impairment classification systems which will get ITF names 2015 World Champions underway in 2016. The review will help strengthen The International Tennis Federation (ITF) named compliance with the IPC Shingo Kunieda of Japan and Jiske Griffioen of Code, which was approved by its General Assembly in November 2015. Wheelchair Tennis World Champions. More on IPC Swimming's classification . More on Kunieda, Griffioen's victories review NWBA, Molten team up . Review of the Jimi Flowers Classic swim The National Wheelchair Basketball Association meet (NWBA) of the USA and sports manufacturer Reviews of IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup in Molten announced a new partnership that will Slovenia, Europa Cup in Austria teams with Molten X-Series balls at training camps leading into the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. More on NWBA, Molten INAS, Sport:80 form partnership INAS, the world governing body for sport for athletes with intellectual impairments, announced a partnership with Sport:80, to deliver an online membership and event management platform. More on INAS, Sport:80 ie 19 January 2016 5 IWAS Wheelchair Fencing aprons arrive in Beatrice Vio completes undefeated season Uruguay to aid in sport development; wheelchair fencing develops in Japan IWAS World Cup event in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE), held 16-21 December, capped a perfect unbeaten season for the Italian. In an effort to increase opportunities for athletes she has not been beaten in major competition since with physical impairments, as well as promote the the World Cup event in Warsaw, Poland, in sport of wheelchair fencing in the region, the September 2014. International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) donated the aprons to allow the . More on Vio's victory at the World Cup in Uruguayan athletes and the Uruguayan Fencing UAE Federation to develop. Netherlands to host 2019 World Para th Elsewhere in the sport, the 68 All Japan Fencing Archery Championships Championships were held in December, The Dutch city of s-Hertogenbosch was awarded showcasing a growth of wheelchair fencing in the the World Archery Championships, World Archery country. Para Championships and World Archery Congress in 2019. More on wheelchair fencing aprons given to Uruguayan athletes .