Healthy and Fit for Optimal Performance
4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

A picture foa a blonde woman showing her gold medal hanging around her neck

As part of the “Redefine Limitations” campaign by manufacturers FINIS, Weggemann will have glimpses of her daily life documented as she prepares for the upcoming Paralympic Games.

People sitting around a table, writing on a big sheet of paper

The Agitos Foundation’s Organisational Capacity Programme has helped the National Paralympic Committee to strengthen its development of para-sport.

Two young women wearing ski clothes and a silver medal holding hands and waving

Britain’s most successful winter Paralympian Jade Etherington and her guide Caroline Powell have announced that they will pursue new careers.

Athlete practicing alpine skiing in a sit-ski.

Skiers will head to France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain and the USA, for World and Europa Cups beginning on 15 December 2015.

Australia's Angela Ballard and Madison de Rozario after taking second and third in the women's 800m T53 final at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships

Angela Ballard and Ellie Cole are supporting the campaign, which aims to get more young Australians with an impairment involved in para-sport.

Two women in wheelchairs on a tennis court hold a trophy and smile to the camera.

The USA’s Nick Taylor and David Wagner got their pursuit of an eight title underway, whilst Japan’s Yui Kamiji and Great Britian’s Jordanne Whiley are on course for another major title.

Maria Lyle at Swansea 2014

British Athletics’ World Class Performance Programme gives extra funding and support to athletes with medal potential on the road to the Rio 2016 Paralympics.

Nadiia and Ivan Sivak Tokyo 2013

The Ukrainian husband and wife team will enter separately into two new events at the 2014 IPC Wheelchair Dance Sport European Championships.

USA athlete leaning forward in his wheelchair on the track at London 2012

The USA’s Joshua George, a Paralympic athletics champion, has teamed up with Olympic gold medallist Allyson Felix to help bring sport to under-privileged communities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Shingo Kunieda

In total, 271 athletes have qualified for Rio, with five more slots secured at the Incheon 2014 Asian Para-Games.

Members of the Brazilian team singing their national anthem during the victory ceremony

The three-time Paralympic champions have not lost a major competition for seven years and are determined to add a fourth Paralympic title at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

An Agitos installed within the Sochi 2014 Olympic Park

Sochi, the host city for the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, will continue its legacy by hosting the 2015 International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) World Games

Skiing man curving around some slalom poles

Skiers Adam Hall and Corey Peters and snowboarder Carl Murphy are departing for the northern hemisphere in preparation for World Championships.

Stephane Houdet

France’s Stephane Houdet hopes for a hat trick, and Japan’s Yui Kamiji and Great Britain’s Jordanne Whiley, and the USA’s Nick Taylor and David Wagner will be looking to retain their titles

Two dancers in wheelchairs posing during a performance

As wheelchair basketball players, the Austrian pairing of Werner Kaiser and Brigitte Kroell have been perfecting more graceful moves than they are used to ahead of the IPC Wheelchair Dance Sport European Championships.

Anna Schaffelhuber at the IPC Alpine World Cup in Panorama, Canada

The group responsible for developing IPC Alpine Skiing, including para-snowboard will be led by Markus Walser for another four years.

A spectacular view of with Christ the Redeemer and Sugar Loaf in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

To coincide with the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games’ commitment to sustainability, the medals with contain metal from recycled electronic equipment.

Toronto 2015 parapans horizontal banner

Participating NPCs will benefit from specialist sports equipment that will assist with preparations ahead of the Games.

Logo Paralympics New Zealand

The 1976 Olympic gold medallist is one of four new appointments that Paralympics New Zealand have made as they aim for a record medal haul at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Hannah Cockroft 100m T34 Lyon

Great British Paralympic champion Cockroft was inspired by poor dealings in the past to launch her own business venture.