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The Tokyo Paralympics scheduled to take start on August 24 this year
are the “most important” in the event’s history according to the
International Paralympic President Andrew Parsons.
Successful European Qualification Tournament for Paralympic Games
Successful European Qualification Tournament for Paralympic Games
We talked in exclusive with the Para-Taekwondo Committee Chairman, Mr. Chakir Chelbat who gave us details about how was carried out the mentioned competition, and how are they preparing for the last qualification in Asia.
Past May 9
th, 2021 took place the European Qualification Tournament for Tokyo Paralympic Games, in Sofia, Bulgaria, right after the Qualification tournament for Tokyo Olympics (able body) on May 7
th and 8
th, where 20 International Referees from top 50 of all over the world officiated this great event.
“I’m very happy to say that we had a successful competition, everything was carried out following the protocols stablished by WT by the book, before this last European event we had 28 countries qualified through 54 athletes. Now 4 athletes from Azerbaijan and 2 from Great Britain join this group of competitors that will look
World Para Powerlifting and Proud Paralympian launch new webinar series Saturday, 8 May 2021
World Para Powerlifting and the International Paralympic Committee s (IPC) athlete education programme Proud Paralympian are collaborating on a series of free webinars for athletes off-the-field development.
The four-part series started today, with each webinar being open to 20 participants, including powerlifters who competed in previous Paralympics and those who aim to make their Paralympic debut at Tokyo 2020.
A total of 18 nations are due to be represented across the four seminars.
First of these is on the theme Working with the Media , delivered by Proud Paralympian educator Daniela Luchina.
Luchina is a former Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair rugby athlete with Argentina.
Rijiju congratulates Arjun, Arvind for Olympics berth
08 May 2021, 14:18 GMT+10
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): Union Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju congratulated the Indian duo of Arjun Jat and Arvind Singh for sealing a berth in the rowing men s doubles sculls event for Tokyo Olympics slated to be held later this year.
Arjun and Arvind qualified for the quadrennial event after finishing second at the Asia Oceania Continental Regatta event.
The Sports Minister applauded the duo s achievement in the showpiece event on Friday.
Taking to Twitter, Rijiju wrote: I congratulate the Indian duo of Naib Subedar Arjun Jat and Naib Subedar Arvind Singh who have qualified for men s Light Weight Doubles Scull event for Tokyo Olympics after securing second place at the Asia Oceania Continental Regatta event. Earlier, four Indian sailors qualified for the Tokyo Games through the Mussanah Open Championship in Oman. It will also be the first time India will be represented in th