> A blindman drives without a co-pilot…

Categories : Coup de coeur

Metin Senturk is a well known Tv presenter in his home country of Turkey.
He drove his F430 Ferrari on his own, at a speed of 292km/h on a runway of the Ourfa airport, east ot Turkey.
He was radio-guided by Volkan Isik who followed him in another vehicle.

> International wheelchairs athletics in Avignon

Categories : Sport, Coup de coeur

Handisport En Durance organizes, the 1st of may, the 3rd international wheelchairs athletics in Avignon. It is qualifying in the athletics world championships 2011. We receive this year 10 countries and a part of the best world athletes who will participate in all the tests of the meeting. This day will leave this mark on the mind because the difference will not exist any more. Come on and talk about it around you.

> The results of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic games

Categories : Sport, Coup de coeur

Please find hereunder the results of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic games for the American, Canadian and Australian athletes:

USA won 13 medals: 4 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze.

Canada won 19 medals: 10 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze

Australia won 4 medals : 1 silver and 3 bronze

ehandicap World Records would like to congratulate all these athletes for their sportive involvement.

> Expert qualified

Categories : ehandicap word records, Coup de coeur

One of our experts, Yohann Taberlé, specialist of achievements on snow, has been qualified for the winter paralympic games in Vancouver.
Jean Yves Le Meurs, whom we mentioned in our challenge section when he climbed the Mont Blanc, will also be part of the journey to represent France at these winter games.

e-Handicap-World-Records wishes all athletes great winter games

> The association para side racing team

Categories : Coup de coeur, Sport

The association para side racing team opened its doors in 2008 in order to understand the government and the French Motorcycle Federation (FFM) that a driver with a physical disability may satisfy his passion for motor sports at the same like any other able-bodied person.
Our association is open to any driver disabled (paraplegic, amputation etc ...), who validated his motorcycle license, and willing to engage in competition, whatever the field (motorcycle solo track, rally, sidecar speed of trial or cross)
physical disability should not be a handicap in the competition ! THE COMPETITION FOR ALL, that is our motto! And we hope many of you follow us in this new adventure.
If you are a disabled driver and motivated contact us for more information. Denis will continue our historic pilot to show his skills in the championship of France Rally, but we hope many of us.

Denis participates championships France rallies road side car category. Denis shows every rally he is as capable as a valid driver's arranged for ZX12R disability (paraplegia).

Arnaud, left femoral cut, began competing in the category sidecar trial

Thierry Pichon paraplegic involved in sidecar racing speed (Basset)

Have members of your family, friend (s) with disabilities who dream of motorcycle competitions, do not tell them it's impossible. The side-PARA-RACING-TEAM is proof

See you soon
The team PSRT

> Happy New Year...

Categories : ehandicap word records

All members of the Ehandicap World Records team wish you a very happy new year – full of challenges and records.
Have a pleasant visit of our Web Site.
“Sportingly yours!”

> Congratulations to Delphine Le Sausse

Categories : ehandicap word records, Coup de coeur

Delphine Le Sausse, sports expert for our website, has returned from the World Disabled Water Ski Championships which took place in Vichy, France. She comes back holding new titles after an already successful time in Australia in 2007.

In 2009, she became:

- Slalom and combined World Champion
- Runner-up in the tricks, jump and super combined World Championships
- Bronze medal per team

And recently on 11 November 2009 she was named World Disabled female Skier of the year.

We wish her luck for the European Championships in 2010.

The ehandicapworldrecords.org team

> New owner of the world speed record for a blind

Categories : Sport

“Hein Wagner is the new owner of the world speed record for a blind, after it reached 320 km/h at the wheel of a Mercedes SL 65 AMG Black Series. That’s not the first time when Wagner breaks a record, his first success in this area took place in 2005 aboard of a Maserati Grand Sport. At the time, Hein Wagner has reached 269 km/h at the wheel of a Maserati, becoming the first South African who has a ground speed record. This time, Hein Wagner has run over 320 km / h and is the owner of the land speed world record for a blind. Hein Wagner’s new record was achieved on a runway at the international airport in Upington, South Africa. During his record attempt, Hein Wagner has run over 320 km/h several times, covering more than 800 meters and this speed before starting to reduce speed. As with any such record attempts, Hein Wagner has been monitored closely to ensure avoiding a disaster. What’s touching is that Hein Wagner wants to use funds from the registration record to donate them Vision Trust Organization. This organization aims to make technology available for blind. As for feeling he has experienced when running a 320 km/h, Hein Wagner said that this is a real obstacle to any driver, whether seen or not”.

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> Une université américaine tente de mettre au point un véhicule pour un non voyant

Categories : Coup de coeur

http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/sciences/0,,4504007,00-enfin-une-voiture-pour-aveugle-.html

> Aaron Fotheringham, 14, does first backflip ever in a wheelchair

Categories : Sport, Coup de coeur

> Three disabled athletes from Spain have reached the South Pole

Categories : Sport, Coup de coeur

Three disabled athletes from Spain have reached the South Pole unassisted by animals or machines, in what a Spanish newspaper said Sunday was a world first.

The three, Jesus Noriega, Eric Villalon and Xavier Valbuena, accompanied by two guides, arrived at the world's most southerly point after a 12-day journey across Antarctica in January, El Pais reported.
The expedition was aimed at showing that nothing is impossible for those with disabilities. But it also had a scientific objective, to collect samples from the polar ice over the 250-kilometre (400-mile) route.
Villalon, a paralympic skier, is practically blind, while Valbuena lost one leg in a motorcycle accident and Noriega was born without his right hand.
Enduring temperatures of minus 40 C and strong winds, they crossed the ice pulling sleds of around 60 kilogrammes (130 pounds).
It is the first time that disabled people have reached the South Pole without help from animals or machines, El Pais.
The expedition was financed by a foundation set up by the Spanish bank La Caixa and by the government of Spain's eastern region of Catalonia.

AFP - 3/2/2009

> Happy New Year

Categories : ehandicap word records

All members of the Ehandicap World Records team wish you a very happy new year – full of challenges and records.
Have a pleasant visit of our Web Site.
“Sportingly yours!”

> Blind Belgian drives at 192 miles per hour

Categories : Coup de coeur, Sport, ehandicap word records

ISTRES, France (AFP) - Blind Belgian daredevil Luc Costermans won a world record Saturday when he hit 308.78 kilometres (192 miles) per hour driving a Lamborghini Gallardo supercar on a French airstrip.
The 43-year-old, who was blinded in an accident four years ago, hit the top speed twice in the borrowed car at the Istres airbase in southern France.
Costermans thanked his co-pilot Guillaume Roman, the air force and his sponsors, and dedicated his record to the Formula 1 driver Philippe Streiff, who has been a tetraplegic since an accident in the 1989 Brasil Grand Prix.
The blind road speed record was previously held by Britain's Mike Newman, who hit 268 kilometres per hour in October 2005 in a modified BMW M5.

> Beijing Paralympic Games: a number of records

Categories : ehandicap word records, Sport

19 September 2008
After 12 days of competition, the Closing Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games on 17 September 2008 officially ended a period of record-breaking competition and events.
279 world records
Almost 4,000 athletes from a total of 147 different countries around the world came to Beijing to compete in their respective sports. Some athletes competed in more than one event, but they all participated at an elite level. Of these 147 countries, five competed in the Paralympic Games for the first time, including Burundi, Gabon, Georgia, Haiti and Montenegro. The Games saw a total of 279 new world records set and a total of 339 new Paralympic records broken.
1.9 million tickets sold
A record number of 1.9 million tickets were sold, with an additional 600,000 tickets provided to children, educational institutes and community groups. The Opening and Closing Ceremonies were sold out, as were all the swimming events and most of the athletics events.
One thousand doping tests conducted
Out of more than 1,000 doping tests conducted, there were three anti-doping rule violations. The doping tests performed included urine (Erythropoietin, EPO) and blood tests (Human Growth Hormone (hGH), synthetic haemoglobin (HBOC), blood transfusions (BT) and other substances.

> Congratulation's Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Categories : ehandicap word records, Coup de coeur

The rights of disabled people is an issue which has been at the heart of many meetings held by the Egyptian National Commission on Human Rights which I have the honour to preside. In accordance with the importance we attach to the subject, we have published our annual report on the protection of human rights in Egypt in Braille, and we are planning to hold a meeting with non-sighted people in the next few months, in order to listen to their feedback on this document. Your plan to launch an Internet site, (www.ehandicapworldrecords.org) dedicated to the achievements of disabled people throughout the world, is therefore of the utmost interest to us in our efforts to help the disabled. In the name of the Egyptian National Commission on Human Rights, and on my own behalf, I would like to congratulate you and to thank you for this magnificent initiative.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Former Secretary General of the United Nations
President of the Egyptian National Commission on Human Rights

> "faux pas" the last book of Jean Yves Le Meur

Categories : ehandicap word records, Coup de coeur

A faux-pas cost him his legs, but his passion for life and his love of the mountains pushed him to the summit of Mont Blanc, standing on an artificial foot and supported by crutches.

A well-known engineer and accomplished sportsman, Jean-Yves Le Meur tells the story of his rebirth and his impossible climb with detachment, sensitivity, intelligence and humour. A far-reaching testimony to one’s ability to surpass and rebuild oneself. Deeply moving.

Barely escaping from a situation close to death, Jean-Yves Le Meur lost his right leg and his left foot in an awful, and stupid, train accident at the age of 19. His return to the world was physical and moral torture, but the young man had a horizon in view : the mountains which were sketched in the window-frame. For him, to “come back” meant nothing : his “life project” was to reach the summit of Mont Blanc standing upright. Crutches in hand, weightless on two artificial legs, he would manage this a few years later, explaining that this “first” was neither a challenge nor a battle, but the fulfilment of an irrepressible impulse based on a whim : it can’t be done ! The horizontal journey of a bedridden young man who confronted insane trials with skin-deep sensitivity, became the path of a man trained for the highest of mountains.

Throughout the encounters and portrayals, and in transcribing the most extreme of emotions, the story of this Faux Pas bears testimony to the keeping of a promise, with passion, the passion to live.

> In spite of efforts to promote equal opportunities ...

Categories : ehandicap word records

Sport and disability[fr][de]
Published: Friday 30 November 2007
In spite of efforts to promote equal opportunities in Europe, many children and adults with disabilities still do not exercise their full rights to perform sport and physical activities at their desired levels.