Para Nordic Skiing World Cup Western Center - Ukraine

France’s Para Nordic skier won the men’s Individual visually impaired race in Western Center, Ukraine, on 17 January.

A quarter of a million schoolchildren across Greater London given opportunity to attend the World Para Athletics Championships London 2017.

A quarter of a million schoolchildren across Greater London given opportunity to attend the World Para Athletics Championships London 2017.

View on slopes in the sunshine

A host of world champions and World Cup leaders will line up for slalom and giant slalom in Slovenia from 18-20 January, ahead of the Worlds.

Logo of the Agitos Foundation

The National Paralympic Committees of Haiti, Argentina, Cameroon and Ghana implemented successful media campaigns for Rio 2016.

swimmingpool

World Para Swimming is inviting potential classifiers to receive hands-on training in Copenhagen, Denmark, in March.

A man and a woman in a stadium, with spadens, working on an athletics track

Media can now apply for accreditation via www.paralympic.org/london-2017

Jiske Griffioen

The Apia International was the first ITF Super Series of the year, with all 2016 singles champions successfully defending their title.

Sao Paulo 2017 mascot

The fourth Youth Parapan American Games will take place in the Brazilian city from 20-25 March.

Lucas Mazur - Badminton - France

Six badminton players and 12 shooters have been named as athletes to look out for in 2017.

Skier and his guide on a slope

With under one week to go until his home alpine skiing World Championships, the teenager talks of his hopes.

VISTA logo

Experts from around the world have until 31 January to submit their abstracts for September’s event in Canada.

Andrea Eskau Oberstdorf

Ukraine also picked up five more home victories at the Western Center.

Tine Teilmann portrait

The Paralympic Movement is being asked to help celebrate role models, influencers and unsung heroes who help to grow female representation in Para sport.

woman in red standing on stage in front of a gold background and addressing the crowd

The ParalympicsGB Senior Leadership Team for the Paralympic Winter Games was also confirmed, with Chief Executive Tim Hollingsworth taking the position of Secretary General again.

Jakub Tokarz - Rio 2016

Six canoeists and 11 powerlifters have been named as athletes to look out for in 2017.

A picture of a woman skiing on a hedge.

Both skiers won the women’s sitting and visually impaired super combined respectively in Innerkrems, Austria, on Sunday (15 January).

Oksana Shyshkova of Ukraine

The Ukrainian secured her fourth cross-country World Cup win of the season on Sunday (15 January), after losing out in the middle distance classic.

Rocio Ledesma stands on top of the podium whilst holding the flag from her province.

The 18-year-old judoka is hoping to successfully defend her title from Buenos Aires 2013 at the Sao Paulo 2017 Youth Parapan American Games.

Group of sitting volleyball players celebrate after a point.

Eight sitting volleyball and six goalball players have been named as athletes to look out for in 2017.

Brazil's player Jefinho in action

Paralympic and world champions Brazil hold first, followed by South American rivals Argentina, China, Spain, Turkey and Iran.