IPC World Athletics Championships 2011 - Portuguese delegation en route to New Z

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IPC World Athletics Championships 2011 - Portuguese delegation en route to New Zealand
   

Eighteen Paralympic athletes set off yesterday to win the 2011 IPC World Athletics Championships.
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The Portuguese delegation also includes elements of nineteen staff, a total of 37 elements that will participate in the last major athletics event before the Olympics.

The IPC World Athletics Championships 2011 will take place 21-30 January in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand.

The Opening Ceremony will take place on January 21 and the evidence will begin in 22 days.

They are expected to more than 1200 athletes and 900 staff members from 70 countries are scheduled more than 5,000 viewers per day.

The event will be held at QEII Stadium, built specifically for the 1974 Commonwealth Games as the venue for athletics and swimming.

Currently he is an icon of Christchurch. The stadium has 400 feet of track and capacity for 15,000 spectators.

For the first time in the history of athletics was allowed the participation of athletes from the four areas of disability (motor, visual, cerebral palsy and intellectual area), a world championship. Will debut in a World IPC athletes Inês Fernandes, Nelson Gonçalves, Raquel Cerqueira, Ricardo Marques and Samuel Davis.

Preparation for the World Athletics Championships has passed through athletes' daily training and participation between 2009 and 2010 National Championships, European and International.

The CPP is responsible for coordinating the delegation, which has as main objective the training of athletes for the London 2012 Olympics and the maintenance of the athletes who are currently part of the Project Preparation London 2012 Paralympic Games.

 

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