Quantico, Va. -- Team United States will participate in third Invictus Games, which will take place in Toronto, Canada from 23 – 30 September 2017. These Games will bring together more than 550 competitors from 17 nations for 8 days of fierce competition. As well as countries who participated in the 2014 and 2016 Invictus Games, Ukraine and Romania will take part in their first ever Invictus Games.
They will take part in 12 adaptive sports including archery, athletics, indoor rowing, powerlifting, road cycling, sitting volleyball, swimming, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair tennis and wheelchair rugby. Also, new to the sports line up will be golf.
There will also be a demonstration match of sledge hockey. All competitions will take place in state-of-the-art sport venues throughout Toronto.
The 2017 Games will introduce the first-ever Invictus Games relay in the history of the Invictus Games, igniting the Invictus Games spirit across all 32 Canadian military bases and neighbouring communities.
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