For more information, please follow us on
http://www.twitter.com/IPCAthletics or
http://www.Facebook.com/IPCAthletics or visit the event website at
http://www.IPCAthleticsWorlds.org.
The official hashtag for the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships
Lyon is #Lyon2013.
Start list:
Yundis Castillo, Cuba
Teresinha de Jesus Correia dos Santos, Brazil
Albertina Johannes, Namibia
Amara Indumathi Karunathi Lallwala Palliyagurunnans, Sri Lanka
Katarzyna Piekart, Poland
For more videos about #Lyon2013 check out this playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6CBAXPeBajlp5FcxM9_HxwoOEvlggYG-
Lyon, France hosted the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships between
19-28 July. More than 1,100 athletes from 98 countries attended the
event which was the first major gathering of international track and
field stars following the hugely successful London 2012 Paralympic
Games. The majority of medal winners from London competed in Lyon as
they started their preparations for the next Paralympic Games in Rio in
2016.
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is the global governing
body of the Paralympic Movement, and also acts as the International
Federation for nine sports, including athletics. The sport is governed
by the IPC and co-ordinated by the IPC Athletics Sports Technical
Committee, offering a wide range of competitions and events for male
and female athletes in all impairment groups.
For further information, please visit
http://www.paralympic.org/athletics,
http://www.twitter.com/IPCAthletics,
http://www.facebook.com/IPCAthletics or http://www.ParalympicSport.TV.
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is committed to enabling
Paralympic athletes to achieve sporting excellence and to develop sport
opportunities for all persons with a disability from the beginner to
elite level. In addition, the IPC aims to promote the Paralympic
values, which include courage, determination, inspiration and equality.
For further information, please visit http://www.paralympic.org. To
watch videos on demand from Paralympic Games and to subscribe to
ParalympicSport.TV, please go to www.youtube.com/ParalympicSportTV.
Also, you may follow the Paralympic Movement on Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/ParalympicGames or on Twitter at
http://www.twitter.com/paralympic.
