International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports (IWAS) Wheelchair Fencing has announced its calendar for the 2019 season with Cheongju in South Korea being awarded the World Championships.
Slovakia’s Kristina Funkova set a world record to win the R9 mixed 50 metres rifle prone SH2 event on the final day of the 2018 World Shooting Para Sport Championships in Cheongju in South Korea.
Paralympic champions Veronika Vadovičová and Sareh Javanmardi added world titles to their Rio 2016 golds on day five of the 2018 World Shooting Para Sport Championships in Cheongju, South Korea.
Slovakia’s Radoslav Malenovsky made the most of a lucky reprieve to claim a gold medal on the opening day of the World Shooting Para Sport Championships in Cheongju in South Korea.
Cheongju in South Korea has been announced as the host of the 2018 World Shooting Para Sport Championships.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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Jakob Larsen, head of the Organising Committee for this week's International Association of Athletics Federations World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, wants to provoke a serious debate about the sport returning to the Olympic programme, as he tells Mike Rowbottom.
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