Virtus USA member organization- Athletes Without Limit (AWL) and Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) announced a partnership to support the qualified Taekwondo athletes representing team USA at the upcoming 2022 Virtus […]
The Beach Soccer Department of the Lega Nazionale Dilettanti will be hosting the first ever beach soccer for athletes with intellectual impairments and Down Syndrome. The event will commence from 5th […]
We are delighted to announce that Virtus has been awarded the Erasmus+ Sport funding for the IDEAL 2.0 project. The grant has been secured for the next three years. This […]
From the IPC website, 21.2.2022 After nearly a year of remote meetings, the Code Drafting team met in person from 9th to 11th February in Bonn, Germany where the stakeholder’s […]
After 2 years of disrupted events due to Covid-19 pandemic, Virtus is looking forward to a busy events calendar in 2022 with important World Championships and Regional Games […]
After five days of action packed events, the 2021 Virtus Swimming Championships have closed in Montlucon, France. Initially, the event was scheduled to be held in Brazil, however the Covid […]
The inaugural Para Sailing World Championship will be staged in Gold Coast, Australia, 5 – 12 November 2022, for Hansa 303 class sailors from all around the world. A World […]
By Mousumi Mazumdar The World Para-Karate Championship took place in Dubai from 18th to 22nd November. It was the first Para-Karate championship endorsed by Virtus after the MOU with World […]
By Mousumi Mazumdar (First published on IPC website on 06 Nov 2021) World and Paralympic records broken by athletes with intellectual impairments across three sports. A total of 161 athletes […]
By Mousumi Mazumdar (First published on IPC website on 01 Nov 2021) Tokyo 2020 saw record participation of female athletes at a Paralympic Games, an increase by 11 per […]
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