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20-23 September

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Naomi Soazo

Venezuela’s 27-year-old judoka is confident she can give her country the second Paralympic gold medal in history at Rio 2016.

Rio 2016 preview: R3 (mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1)

Featuring all three podium finishers from the 2014 World Championships and London 2012 Paralympic Games, this event is not to be missed.

Rio 2016 preview: women’s up to 41kg

Turkey’s Paralympic, world and European champion Nazmiye Muratli will face a tough challenge.

Jon Margeir Sverrisson Iceland

Kazakhstan will send 10 athletes to the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, and Iceland five.

IPCAS Snowboard World Cup at the Big White Ski Resort, Canada

The dates and location for the last major competition ahead of the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games are set.

three females running, one wearing green, one blue and one red

The Australian 15-year-old cannot even remember watching London 2012 but heads to Rio 2016 as a double world champion and world record holder.

Graphic with some information about the men's up to 49kg competition at the Rio 2016 Paralympics

The world and Paralympic champion will meet the world record holder in a tantalising clash.

Agitos

The US sprinter will now serve the remainder of his two-year suspension for an anti-doping violation committed in June 2015.

View on an empty stadium with a blue track

The IPC today met with the Mayor of Rio and Federal Government to try find solutions to the Rio 2016 Organising Committee's budget issues.

The Canadian Parapan Am Men's Wheelchair Basketball Team

Toronto 2015 was not only the biggest Parapans to date but also the most successful. Next stop: Lima 2019.

General view of the Future Arena.

The Turkish men’s goalball team sealed gold following a 10-0 win over Germany in Malmo, Sweden.

Agitos

Luciano Dos Santos Pereira tested positive for two substances during an in-competition test at May’s IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Agitos

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will hear the appeal on Monday, 22 August.

World Anti Doping Agency's Logo.

Emails that appear to come from the World Anti-Doping Agency are circulating, and WADA calls for recipients to be vigilant.

Man male and female rower on boat in the water.

The Foundation will provide funding for equipment that athletes use to compete.

Man in swimming pool, celebrating after finishing a race. Camera filming him.

The swimmer is set to make a splash at September’s Paralympic Games in Rio.

Two female wheelchair racers

Australia’s double world champion Angie Ballard and her coach, former Paralympic athlete Louise Sauvage feature in August’s ‘Me and My Coach’.

Wheelchair racer after finishing his race

The Canadian T53 ace is aiming to win his first Paralympic gold in Rio, but what else does he do away from the track?

Rio 2016 preview: P1 (men’s 10m air pistol SH1)

Featuring the much anticipated debut of Ukraine’s Oleksii Denysiuk, this competition will be the second pistol event of Rio 2016.

Sledge hockey player on the ice

Latest threads to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary as a nation.