Three China Para National Teams to gear up for the Paralympic Games

2023/01/30 15:45

Within less than two years prior to the Paralympic Games Paris 2024, China Para National Team recently launched the centralized training around the country for three events, including athletics, swimming and wheelchair tennis. During the Spring Festival, the preparations were made for Paris Paralympic Games, Hangzhou Asian Para Games and major international single-event sports competitions. 

Swimming Team and Wheelchair Tennis Team respectively conducted the centralized training in Beijing on January 11 and January 18. The training on athletics was carried out in Fujian, Jiangsu and Shanghai since January 11.

In 2023, Paralympic qualifying events including a series of individual world championships will be started. The World Para Athletics Championships will be held in Paris (France) in July; the Para Swimming World Championships will be launched in Manchester (UK) in July, and the event will generate the qualifying spots for Paris Paralympic Games.

The wheelchair tennis training team will compete at the Asian Section of World Cup Qualifiers on February 28. "Only those who become the champions of the Asian Section of World Cup Qualifiers are qualified to attend the competitions of the World Cup, and these competitions are associated with the points of Paris Paralympic Games." Dong Fuli, the coach of Wheelchair Tennis Team, stated that in the future, the team would participate in the international events as much as possible and make great efforts to seize more qualifying spots for the Paralympic Games.

Gao Wei, the deputy head of the Competition & Training Department I of China Administration of Sport for Persons with Disabilities, said: "Tokyo Paralympic Games was postponed for one year, which occupied the preparation period for Paris Paralympic Games. In the following two years of preparations, more scientific and reasonable training programs will be developed according to the characteristic of each athlete's level, so as to achieve one program for one person."

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