Canada and USA 1 goal 2 countries

During the last six months there has been several meetings between the IPCH and representatives from both Canada and USA respectively. In the beginning the aim basically was to reconnect and to get an impression of the current state of Powerchair Hockey in the two nations. “After our first meeting with IPCH we felt like ... More

1st IPCH Referee Town Hall

After such a long time away from the field and in the sight of the upcoming World Championship 2022 the IPCH Referee committee has organized yesterday the first-ever IPCH Referee Town Hall. The meeting will become a periodical appointment for IPCH Referees and is meant to provide support to referees and keep them ... More
calling for bids

CALLING FOR BIDS FOR QT23 and EC24

While the SEC is working hard on the organization of the upcoming World Championship 2022, time has also come to start looking forward. With the aim of having the necessary time to think and work on the next steps, SEC has decided to open the bidding procedures for the next two big competitions: - IPCH Qualification ... More

IPCH Sport Congress – 5th June 2021

PCH Sport Congresses are held every two years and provides an arena for IPCH Member Nations to discuss and decide about policies, management rules and regulations for Powerchair Hockey. The 14th Sport Congress was supposed to be organized under the auspices of the IWAS and IPCH by the local organizing committee (LOC) of ... More

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2022: ALLOCATED NATION AND INVITATION SENT

The 5th IWAS Powerchair Hockey World Championship will take place from 7th to 15th August 2022 in Switzerland. This will be the first time Switzerland will host the major PCH competition. The whole organizing committee, together with Wheelchair Sport Switzerland is already working to ensure a successful competition and is ... More

SWITZERLAND APPOINTED AS HOSTING NATION FOR THE POWERCHAIR HOCKEY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2022

IPCH is happy to announce that the hosting nation for the IPCH World Championship 2022 has finally been selected. Switzerland will host the competition in Nottwil! Team delegations will be accommodated at the Hotel Sempachersee and the venues of the Schweizer Paraplegiker-Zentrum will be used for training, ... More

MERRY CHRISTMAS

2020 has been a very complicated year, that no one could predict. Many competitions and games have been cancelled or postponed, taking away from athletes and supporters the possibility of expressing themselves and their passion. But we are sure sport and especially para-sport can support the way back to normality and ... More

IPCH EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP CANCELLED!

The complicated and unpredictable situation created by the COVID-19 Pandemic brought, last march, the IPCH Sport Executive Committee, in agreement with the Local Organizing Committee, to postpone the European Championship in Finland to 31st May – 7th June 2021. In all those months IPCH, together with the Local Organiz... More

Masterlist updated

As announced last June IPCH thanks to the work of the Classification Committee the refinement of the Trunk Assessment is now officially in place. IPCH also organized a Webinar to properly explain the refinement and to reply to the questions that arose from classifiers, Classification National Coordinators, National Team ... More

CLASSIFICATION: TRUNK ASSESSMENT REFINEMENT 

In 2016 a first research on the Trunk Assessment was conducted by students of the University of Applied Science in The Hague (The Netherlands), the project led to reconsider which athlete had a zero (0) trunk and which athlete had a 0.5 trunk. After the World Championship 2018 Classification Committee, also on the basis ... More