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Handisport Saint-Malo - Championnat de France des Régions
From January 25 to 27, swimmers from all over France came to Saint-Malô for the Championnat de France des Régions, the 2008 French Regional Swimming Champs for athletes with a disability. The competition was organized at the Piscine de Naye, the swimming complex close to the historical old city of Saint-Malo. For most of the particispants the event was yet an other test for the Paralympic Games, which will be held in September in Beijing, China. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
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Double Dutch Open 2008
From January 18 to 20, the 2008 Double Dutch Open was held in Deventer, about an hour train ride from Rotterdam. Once again the main part of the competition was organized in the region's well-known recreation complex "De Scheg", which houses various wheelchair accessible sports facilities under one roof. The Double Dutch Open, which is held biennially, has attracted both disabled and non-disabled athletes from all over Europe for more than 10 years. When the event was initiated in 1993 by the Double Dutch Open Foundation it was originally planned as a swimming competition and first organized in the year of 1994. Due to the huge success the executive committee decided to expand the tournament with the inclusion of sitting volleyball and later wheelchair basketball and wheelchair tennis. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
DEVENTER 2008 |
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Paralympic Skiing 2008 Abtenau
Nearly 200 disabled world class athletes from 18 nations took part in the IPC World Cup Disabled, held from January 5 to 11, 2008, in Abtenau, Austria. The competition was the first of several skiing events this year, which will take the participants also to France, Korea and Japan. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
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Natacion Adaptada Benicarlo
On December 15 and 16, 2007, amputee swimmers and swimmers with other disabilities met in Benicarlo, near Valencia, for the 2007 Spanish Short Course Swimming Championships for disabled athletes. Swimmers from all over Spain took part in the event, which was organized by the Benicarlo Council and the Comunidad Valenciana Federation of Adapted Sports in conjunction with other Spanish Sports Federations for athletes with a disability. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
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Amputee Football World Championships
During the finals of the 2007 Amputee Football World Championships, the amputee soccer team of Uzbekistan beat the team of Russia with 2 : 1 and is new Amputee Football World Champion. The Amputee Football World Championship, which was held from November 11 to 21, was attended by Amputee Football players from Brazil, Sierra Leone, Russia, the Ukraine, England, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Iran, Liberia and France. The event was organized by the Turkish Sports Federation for Physically Disabled Athletes and the Turkish Football Federation and held in the soccer complex of the Topkapi Palace Hotel in the Southern Turkish city of Antalya. From the expected 12 teams only 11 managed to come to the competition, while the amputee football players from Nigeria could not take part because of financial difficulties. Due to visa difficulties the team of Ghana arrived late and did not compete in the championships. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
ANTALYA 2007 SET 1 | SET 2 | SET 3 | SET 4 | SET 5 |
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Disabled Swimming Short Course Chemnitz
On November 17 and 18, amputee swimmers and swimmers with other disabilities met in Chemnitz for the 2007 German Short Course Swimming Championships for disabled athletes. The competition took place in the Südring Swimming Complex and was organized by the ASCOTA Swimming Club. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
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Nordic Swimming Reykjavik
On October 26 and 27, amputee swimmers and swimmers with other disabilities met in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the 2007 Nordic Swimming Championships for disabled athletes. Swimmers from Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Estonia and Latvia took part in the event, which was organized in the brand new sports complex of the Iceland capital. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
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Sitting Volleyball German Championships Cottbus Kolkwitz
On October 13 and 14, 2007, Sitting Volleyball players from all over Germany met in Kolkwitz, near Cottbus, for the 2007 German Sitting Volleyball Championships for amputee athletes and athletes with other disabilities. After having lost the finals to Berlin last year, the team of Bayer Leverkusen won this competition 3:2 and is new German Sitting Volleyball Champion. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
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Eurochamps Sitting Volleyball
Nyíregyháza, a city in the Eastern part of Hungary, hosted the 2007 European Championships in Sitting Volleyball for amputee athletes and athletes with other disabilities. During the event, which took place from September 4 to 8, teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Germany, Ukraine, Croatia, The Netherlands, Greece, Great Britain and other countries competed against each other. Once again the team of Bosnia and Herzegovina won the Gold Medal in the Men's competition, while the team of The Netherlands won Gold in the Women's competition. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
NYIREGYHAZA 2007 SET 1 | SET 2 | SET 3 |
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Paralympic Day 2007 Berlin
On August 23 thousands of Berliners and visitors of the German capital came to the Brandenburg Gate, where the International Paralympic Day 2007 was organized. They experienced a variety of Paralympic sports events, including Long Jump, Sitting Volleyball, Biathlon, Table Tennis, Football 5-a-side and Wheelchair Basketball. In a show match the German men’s U22 wheelchair basketball team defeated the women’s Chinese National Team by 54:22 and the National Team of Bosnia and Herzegowina in Sitting Volleyball managed to beat Germany two sets to one. During a match for blind soccer players Spain defeated Germany in the Football 5-a-side match. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
PARALYMPIC DAY 2007 SET 1 | SET 2 |
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German Athletics Open
From July 20 to 22 Germany's top Paralympic athletes met in Singen for the 2007 German Athletics Open. They were joined by a number of athletes from abroad, including participants from Canada, Tunisia, France, the United Arab Emirates, The Netherlands and other countries. Some of the athletes who too part in the competition will be meeting soon again in Taipeh for the IPC Athletics - IWAS World Wheelchair & Amputee Games, which will be organized from September 9 to 19, 2007. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
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Campeonato de Espana de Natacion adatada
On July 7 and 8, swimmers from all over Spain met for the 2007 Spanish Swimming Open for amputee athletes, wheelchair athletes and athletes with other disabilities. This year the competition was organized in Zaragoza, which will be hosting the EXPO 2008. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
ZARAGOZA
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Handisport Athletisme France
On June 22 and 23 amputee athletes, wheelchair athletes and athletes with other disabilities met for the 2007 Championat de France d'Athletisme, the French Open Athletics 2007. Among the many participants of the competition, which took place in the Jacky Boxberger Stadium in the city of Montbeliard in South-Eastern France, was also a number of athletes from the United Arab Emirates planning to participate in several European competitions this summer. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
MONTBELIARD
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German Disabled Swimming Open
From May 24 to 27, 2007, 450 swimmers with a disability from 28 nations came to Berlin for this year's German Swimming Open. The event, which was organized for the 8th time in the German capital, was an other chance for swimmers from around the world to prepare for the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing. During the 4 days of the competition, athletes broke several records, including 40 World and 21 European Records. Best German swimmers were Kirsten Bruhn of the club PSV Neumünster, who once again broke several records during the competition. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
BERLIN
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Belgian Paralympic Swimming Open 2007
On May 12 and 13, 2007, the Vlaamse Liga Gehandicaptensport vzw (Flemish federation of sport for the disabled) and Wapper vzw (Sports club for athletes with an physical disability) organized the Belgian Paralympic Swimming Championships for athletes with a disability. For the second time Belgian disabled swimmers and swimmers form other European countries and Canada had the chance to compete against each other in Antwerp's Wezenberg swimming pool, among them well know Paralympic swimmers like Jonas Martens . For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
ANTWERP 2007 SET 1 | SET 2 |
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Hamburg Sitting Volleyball 2007
On May 5 and 6, 2007 sitting volleyball players from around Europe came to Hamburg for the annually held Werner von Siemens Cup Sitting Volleyball Tournament. This year, teams from Germany, Holland, England and Bosnia, including two Women's National Teams took part in the event. The Cup, originally initiated in 1989 by the ambitious young Hamburg team with the help of Siemens AG, has developed over the years into one of the highlights on the international disabled volleyball scene. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
HAMBURG
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Bratislava Disabled Swimming 2007
On April 28 and 29, 2007 amputee swimmers and swimmers with other disabilities met in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, for the 29th Slovakia Cup.The event was organized in the Swimming pool Pasienky in the Eastern part of Bratislava. Among the participants were also swimmers from the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Hungary, Croatia, Russia and other European countires. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
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Jerusalem Badminton Open 2007
From March 22 to 24, 2007, the 7th Israel Open Badminton Championships for athletes with a disability were held in Jerusalem. About 100 athletes and officials came to Jerusalem's Beit Halochem Centre for the competition, among them Badminton players from 8 countries in Europe, South America and Asia. After having competed in Jerusalem, most players went on to take part in the Rishon Lizion Tournament, held between March 27th and 29th. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
JERUSALEM
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Esbjerg Danish Open Swimming 2007
From March 9 to March 11 swimmers with a disability from several European countries met in Esbjerg for this year's Danish Swimming Open for athletes with a disability. The event was the first major international competion of the year and the first big test after the IPC Swimming World Championships in Durban, South Africa, in December 2006. Once again, swimmers met in Esbjerg's Swommestadion Danmark, which was build in 1996 and offers a 10 lane 50 meter pool. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
ESBJERG
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Oberstdorf / Isny 2007
With Spring-like temperatures and a general lack of snow in the area, skiing conditions were not perfect, when Paralympic Skiers met in Oberstdorf, Germany, on January 20 for the IPC World Cup Nordic Skiing. Nevertheless, thanks also to the strong support of the local organizers, the event - the second biggest this year after the IPC Nordic Skiing World Cup Cross Country and Biathlon in Vuokatti, Finland - got off to a good start with a great number of international teams participating. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
OBERSTDORF
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Durban
2006
From December 2 to 8, the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships for amputee swimmers and swimmers with other disabilities were being held in Durban, South Africa. Approximately 550 athletes from 50 countries participated in the event which took place at the King's Park Aquatic Centre. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
DURBAN
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Stockholm Games
2006
Sweden has been successfully hosting international sports events for athletes with a disability for many years. Now the Swedish capital has added the Stockholm Games, which are held in and around Stockholm and also include various sports events, among them Swimming, Wheelchair Basketball and Sledge Hockey . For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
STOCKHOLM GAMES
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Sitting Volleyball Berlin
2006
On September 24, 2006, nearly 200 amputee
and wheelchair athletes went on the start
for the 2006 Berlin Marathon. Reflecting a
growing popularity of handbiking all over
the world, for the first time in the marathon's
history, handbike enthusiasts outnumbered
the participating wheelchair racers. . For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
SIVOBA
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Berlin Marathon
2006
On September 24, 2006, nearly 200 amputee
and wheelchair athletes went on the start
for the 2006 Berlin Marathon. Reflecting a
growing popularity of handbiking all over
the world, for the first time in the marathon's
history, handbike enthusiasts outnumbered
the participating wheelchair racers. . For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
BERLIN
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German Athletics
2006
For some of the participants at the German
Athletics, held from August 25 to 27, 2006,
in Leverkusen, the competition was the last
test before this year's biggest athletics
event, the IPC Athletics World Championships
in Assen, The Netherlands. Among the many
international athletes with a disability taking
part in Leverkusen was also Paralympic top
sprinter Earle Connor, who was suspended from
Canada's Paralympic team shortly before the
Paralympics in Athens after failing a drugs
test in 2004. For more information and photographs
taken during the competition, please click
here:
LEVERKUSEN
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Wuppertal 2006
The First German Open in Table Tennis for
athletes with a disability was held in Wuppertal,
in Western Germany, in 2005. About 30 athletes
from six nations attended the event, with
France winning, Germany coming in second and
Belgium third. One year later, the 2nd German
Open attracted more than 300 participants
from 37 countries and was held from August
16 to 20, 2006, in Wuppertal's premium event
hall UNI HALLE, which is also used for music
events and fully accessible for athletes with
disabilities. For more information and photographs
taken during the competition, please click
here:
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Amsterdam 2006
From July 3 to 16, 2006, the Gold Cup 2006
Tournament, the official Wheelchair Basketball
World Championships were held. For two weeks
teams from around the world, including the
two favourites, Canada and the USA, played
against each other in Amsterdam's Sporthallen
Zuid complex, near Holland's Schiphol airport.
For more information and photographs taken
during the competition, please click here:
AMSTERDAM
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Roermond 2006
From June 17 to 25, 2006, the city of Roermond
in the Netherlands hosted the Sitting and
Standing Volleyball World Championships 2006
for athletes with a disability. 28 teams from
all over the world took part in the competition,
including the Canadian men's standing disabled
volleyball team which captured their third
consecutive world title. For more information
and photographs taken during the competition,
please click here:
ROERMOND
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Berlin 2006
From June 1 to 4, 2006, more than 400 swimmers
with a disability from 25 nations came to
Berlin for this year's German Swimming Open.
Athletes took part in 71 competitions and
broke more international records than ever
before in Berlin. For more information and
photographs taken during the competition,
please click here:
BERLIN
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Duderstadt 2006
On May 20, 2006, the world's top amputee athletes
met in Duderstadt, Germany, for the Paralympic
Challenge 2006. The event, which was formerly
known as Paralympics Revival, has long been
a firm part of the international Track &
Field Schedule and was last organized by the
Otto Bock HealthCare division in 1999. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
DUDERSTADT
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Hamburg 2006
On May 6 and 7, 2006, players from around
Europe came to the city of Hamburg in Germany
for the annually held Werner von Siemens Cup
Sitting Volleyball Tournament. This year's
competition attracted teams from all over
Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Bosnia and
other countries. For more information and
photographs taken during the competition,
please click here:
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Esbjerg
2006
From March 10 - 12, 2006, swimmers from several
European countries met in Esbjerg for this
year's Danish Swimming Open. Although the
number of participating athletes was smaller
than during previous competitions, the teams
from Germany, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland
and of course clubs from Scandinavia were
once again well represented. For more information
and photographs taken during the competition,
please click here:
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Deventer 2006
From January
20 to 22, 2006 the 7th Double Dutch Open was
held in Deventer. Once again, the competition,
which is organized biennially and has attracted
both disabled and non-disabled athletes from
all over Europe for more than 10 years, was
held in "De Scheg", the region's
well-known recreation complex which is housing
various wheelchair accessible sports facilities
under one roof. For more information and photographs
taken during the competition, please click
here:
DEVENTER
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Angoulême
From January
13th to 15th, 2006, the city of Angoulême,
near Bordeaux, welcomed swimmers with a disability
from all over France, Belgium and Switzerland
for this year's French Winter Swimming Open.
This time the competition was held in the
Nautilis center, which is part of the city's
biggest recreation complex, offering excellent
conditions for swimmers with a disability.
For more information and photographs taken
during the competition, please click here:
ANGOULÊME
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Para Games 2005
From December
14 to 20, 2005, the 3rd Asean Para Games were
held in Manila, Philippines.
Thailand, which will be hosting the next Paragames
scheduled for 2007, won the medal tally, with
Vietnam coming in second and Malaysia third.
For more information and photographs taken
during the competition, please click here:
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Chemnitz 2005
On November
26 and 27 nearly 200 swimmers took part in
this year's German Short Course Championships
for amputee swimmers and swimmers with other
disabilities, an event yearly organized in
the city of Chemnitz, located in Eastern Germany.
For more information and photographs taken
during the competition, please click here:
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Kamnik
The Slovenian
city of Kamnik was recently host to a very
special event. Thanks to the enthusiasm of
a small group of organizers, from October
28 to November 1, 2005, the First Junior World
Championships in Sitting Volleyball were held
in this small town near the capital Ljubljana,
about 30 minutes drive from Brnik airport.
For more information and photographs taken
during the competition, please click here:
KAMNIK
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Sheffield
The very modern and easily accessible Ponds
Forge Swimming Center in the heart of Sheffield,
United Kingdom, has been very popular with
swimmers with a disability for many years.
Once again it was the event site for this
year's British Short Course Swimming Championships
on October 22 and 23. Among the over 200 competitiors
were multiple Paralympic medallists Jim Anderson,
Dave Roberts, Nyree Lewis, Sascha Kindred,
Gareth Duke, Giles Long, Natalie Jones, Andrew
Lindsay and Danielle Watts. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
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Berlin Marathon
2005
On September 25, about 200 wheelchair racers
and handbikers went on the start for the 2005
Berlin Marathon. Paralympic athlete Edith
Hunkeler of Switzerland won the women's wheelchair
race in a time of 1:49:46. Her countryman
Heinz Frei, who celebrated his 100th race
victory, was first in the men's wheelchair
race in a time of 1:28:32. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
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Berlin Athletics
2005
This year's International German Open for
amputee athletes and athletes with other disabilities
took part from August 12 to 14. More than
400 athletes from Germany, Austria, Australia,
Ireland, Great Britain, the United Arab Emirates,
India and other countries came to Berlin,
where the competition was held at Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadium
in the city's trendy Prenzlauer Berg district.
For more information
and photographs taken during the competition,
please click here:
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Jambes 2005
This year's NEC tour included 118 events in
32 countries around the world, among them
was the Belgian Open 2005, which took place
from July 19 to 24 in the Tennis Club Géronsart,
Jambes/Namur. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
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Cordoba 2005
This year's Spanish Open for amputee swimmers
and swimmers with other disabilities took
part from July 15 to July 17, 2005. Athletes
from all over Spain and other Southern European
countries came to the Andalusian city of Cordoba,
where the competition was held in the swimming
center on the campus of the University of
Cordoba, located on the outskirts of the city.
For more information
and photographs taken during the competition,
please click here:
CORDOBA
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SVB Leverkusen
2005
From June 21 to June 25, teams from all over
Europe came to Germany for the 2005 European
Championships in Sitting Volleyball. Twelve
men's and five women's teams competed in the
Wilhelm-Dopatka-Halle in Leverkusen. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
SVB
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Manchester 2005
Over 350 Paralympic athletes from 49 countries
took part in the 2005 Paralympic World Cup,
held from May 12 to 15 in Manchester, United
Kingdom.
They competed in 4 sports categories: Athletics,
Swimming, Track Cycling and Wheelchair Basketball.
In Athletics, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Chantal
Petitclerc and Oscar Pistorius were the most
successful participants, each of them winning
two gold medals. For
more information and photographs taken during
the competition, please click here:
MANCHESTER
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Hamburg 2005
On April 30 and May 1, 2005, players from
around Europe once again came to the city
of Hamburg in Germany for the annually held
Werner von Siemens Cup Sitting Volleyball
Tournament. The Cup, originally initiated
in 1989 by the ambitious young Hamburg team
with the help of Siemens AG, has developed
over the years into one of the highlights
on the international disabled volleyball scene.
For more information and photographs taken
during the competition, please click here:
HAMBURG
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Achenkirch 2005
For most skiers with a disability the European
Cup in Achenkirch, Austria, held from April
7 to April 10, 2005 in Tyrol's ski resort
Christlum, high up in the mountains near lake
Achensee, meant the end of the 2004/05 season.
Once again, the Austrian Disabled Ski team
finished as the most successful one, with
1700 points ahead of the other participating
nations. For more
information and photographs taken during the
competition, please click here:
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