International paralympic committee athletes

Winter Games Paralympian Josh Dueck: The Athlete’s Council of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has elected Vladyslava Kravchenko of Malta as Chairperson and Yoomin Won of South Korea as second Vice-Chair during a meeting held at the organisation’s headquarters here on Wednesday.

Vladyslava Kravchenko took over the role of Chairperson from Jitske Visser, who served from November 2021 to November 2024. The new Chair will serve for four years until 2028 and will be an ex-officio member of the IPC Governing Board with voting rights, the IPC informed in a release on Wednesday.

Yoomin Won was also elected as the second Vice-Chair during the same meeting.