Trends in Paralympic Training: experts meet at an event organized by the Valledupar 2026 Parasuramerican Games and the Universidad del Área Andina
Valledupar, November 18, 2025. With the aim of generating a space for learning and cooperation between leaders, coaches, sports managers and the university community, the organization of the Parasuramerican Games Valledupar 2026 in conjunction with the University Foundation of the Andean Area, held the academic event ‘Trends in Paralympic Training: Training without limits, Science, Inclusion and Paralympic Culture.
Academic forum highlighted the role of Valledupar 2026 as an engine for inclusion and sustainable development
Valledupar, November 7, 2025. With a large attendance of teachers, students, researchers, athletes, representatives of SENA and the economic-productive sector, the Academic Forum ‘Valledupar Inteligente 2026: Inclusive Sport, Economy and Sustainable Future’ was held, organized by the Universidad Popular del Cesar (UPC) and the Parasuramerican Games Valledupar 2026, within the framework of the agreement signed with the Colombian Paralympic Committee.
Valledupar 2026 presents progress at the Americas Paralympic Committee Assembly
The General Assembly of the Americas Paralympic Committee is held in Santiago de Chile with the participation of 32 countries of the continent. This meeting strengthens the Paralympic movement in the region, being an ideal scenario to show how the city is preparing less than nine months before the start of the multi-sport event.
ABCs of sitting volleyball: debut sport that promises excitement at Parasuramerican Games Valledupar 2026
It will be played for the first time in the framework of the Parasuramerican Games in Valledupar 2026, an event in which, from July 5 to 9 at the Julio Monsalvo Castilla Coliseum, 168 Para athletes will compete, distributed in six male and six female teams, which, classified by continental ranking, will fight for the two medals awarded by this Paralympic sport, which promises spectacle, technique and spirit of inclusion.
Silence: play goalball
Between July 4 and 8, 2026, the Óscar Muñoz Oviedo Combat Coliseum will host the goalball tournament of the II Parasuramerican Games Valledupar 2026. Six countries will seek two gold medals (male and female) in a sport where silence, precision and listening define each score.
Speed, precision and strategy: this is how wheelchair basketball is played.
In the II Parasuramerican Games Valledupar 2026, wheelchair basketball will gather 144 Para athletes from 6 countries per branch (male and female), who will compete from July 4 to 9 at the Basketball Coliseum of the Unidad Deportiva La Gota Fría. With two titles in dispute, the competition promises intense duels where speed, coordination and teamwork will be the real protagonists.
Concentration and strategy: how to play boccia
In the II Parasuramerican Games Valledupar 2026, boccia will bring together 68 athletes from 11 countries, who will compete from July 10 to 15 in the Gymnastics Coliseum of the Universidad Popular del Cesar. The competition, which will award 11 gold medals in men’s and women’s individual events, will test the precision, concentration and tactics of the best exponents of this discipline created exclusively for people with severe motor disabilities.
ABC soccer for the blind: The echo of the goal, on the road to glory
Soccer for the blind will bring together 60 Para athletes from six countries who will compete from July 9 to 15 at the Parasuramerican field of the Agustin Codazzi Sports Village, official sub-venue of the II Parasuramerican Games in history. Argentina, Brazil, medalists in the Paralympic Games of Paris 2024 and Colombia, which finished in fourth place, will be the great favorites in the fight for the only gold medal in dispute.
Parasuramerican Games and the Mayor’s Office of Agustín Codazzi promote inclusion and sustainability in the schools of the sub-locality
The Secretary of Education of Agustín Codazzi and the Deputy Director of Education, Culture and Legacy of Valledupar 2026 met with rectors and representatives of educational institutions to promote participation in the II Parasuramerican Games. The meeting highlighted the importance of inclusion, environmental sustainability and citizen commitment to the event.
Centro Cultural de la Música Vallenata to host the Valledupar 2026 Table Tennis Tournament
From July 4 to 8, the majestic cultural epicenter that the Government of Cesar is building in the capital of the department, will host the table tennis of the Parasuramerican Games Valledupar 2026, a sport that will have the participation of 80 Para athletes and the dispute of 37 gold medals. The enclosure to be inaugurated soon, in which the playing area will be adapted, was endorsed by the International Table Tennis Federation to host the development of the hemispheric competition.
