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The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) have signed an agreement regarding the transfer of shooting Para sport’s governance and operations from the IPC to the ISSF. Currently shooting Para sport is administered by World Shooting Para Sport, a department of the IPC. A unified vision for our sport The agreement represents the first formal step towards unifying Olympic and Paralympic shooting sport and aims to: • Establ

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has received a donation of nearly EUR 40,000 from the Tokyo-based Nippon Foundation Para Sports Support Center to support the production of classification education resources. Over the past few years, as part of its commitment to improving the understanding of classification within the Paralympic Movement, the IPC launched and continued developing an online Classification Fundamentals Course featuring high-quality illustrations of

Nearly 0.65 billion video views across the @Paralympics digital channels during 12 days of sporting competition. The International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) digital channels enjoyed record breaking results during the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games with the performance of some channels surpassing not just the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games but the whole year of 2024. Across all @Paralympics channels, there were 648 million video views during 12 days of sporting c

The Para triathlete returned an adverse analytical finding for a Prohibited Substance at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has referred an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) committed by Para triathlete Ronan Nunes Cordeiro at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games to World Triathlon. In its role as major event organiser of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, the IPC was responsible for the anti-doping programme at the Paris 2024 Games. Cordei

President of the Chamber of Deputies Lorenzo Fontana, President of the Milano Cortina 2026 Organising Committee Giovanni Malago, Paralympians, Buona sera Italia, Ciao Cortina, grazie mille a tutti, avete reso il nostro tempo qui davvero speciale. Here at the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Games, we celebrated that we are different. Tonight, let us celebrate something even greater: how those differences brought us together and made us stronger. These Paralympic Winter Games ha

Record after record was broken as the Games hit new heights. As the Paralympic Winter Games celebrated its 50th anniversary, Milano Cortina 2026 broke multiple records, setting benchmarks for all future Games. 1. Record number of Para athletes and NPCs A total of 611 Para athletes from 55 National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) competed in the Games. This was the most ever, surpassing the previous record high of 564 Para athletes from 48 NPCs at PyeongChang 2018. Five NPCs made