PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

To mark Germany’s National Diversity Day (3 June), Allianz invited students with an impairment from various universities to job shadow executive managers at Allianz SE in Munich.

Around 570 athletes from 34 countries will be compete in Berlin over three days of thrilling competition.

Mixed fortunues for Tunisian athletes on home soil at seventh IPC Athletics Grand Prix of the season.

Win a trip of a lifetime for two to Rio 2016 as part of the IPC’s 25th anniversary celebrations this September

The long jump world champion is hoping to recapture the form that won her a world title last year when she lines up against Britain’s Stef Reid.

The Equal Halves project being run by the Trinidad and Tobago Paralympic Committee, and funded by the Agitos Foundation, has identified athletes, trained coaches and impacted thousands of people through in the last six months.

World ParaVolley held its biennial General Assembly in Elblag, Poland on 12 June 2014 in the same city that is staging the 2014 World ParaVolley Sitting Volleyball World Championships for men and women.

Asian Paralympic Committee express satisfcation ahead of October's Incheon 2014 Asian Para Games.

The Australian Rollers men’s national wheelchair basketball team have named their final 12 players who will represent Australia at the 2014 IWBF World Championships in South Korea.

Having taken up para-athletics just 18 months ago and only recently finishing school, Germany’s Felix Streng is emerging as one of the surprise packages of the 2014 season and a potential rival to Great Britain’s Jonnie Peacock at August’s European Championships in Swansea, Great Britain.

Great Britain’s Ali Jawad arrived at the 2014 IPC Powerlifting World Championships with the aim of casting aside disappointment which started at Beijing 2008.

There was only one word that Canada’s wheelchair basketballer Janet McLachlan could use to describe how she will feel when she takes to the court for Friday’s (20 June) World Championships opening match against Japan in front of friends and family - “Special”.

Eight para-athletes named as part of England track and field squad for Glasgow 2014.

A total of 22 swimmers with 98 Paralympic and 123 world gold medals have been listed ahead of the 2014 swimming Euros and other major competitions.

To mark the three month anniversary since the Closing Ceremony of the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has launched a stunning online short film ”Sochi 2014 – Breaking Down Barriers” featuring many highlights from March’s event.

IBSA have published their monthly goalball world rankings as of 31 May and it sees a change at the top of the women’s game, whilst there is no change in the top five of the men’s game.

IPC Athletics has announced that 27 of the 177 events planned for inclusion in the track and field programme at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games are currently not meeting the minimum eligibility criteria as of 6 June 2014 due to the population of athletes.

An aspiring young Paralympian will fly to Berlin for a unique Swansea 2014 mission this week.

The pair were Great Britain's first ever winners of a Paralympic Winter Games gold medal and have been recognised in the Queen's birthday honours list.

Twelve teams are heading to Toronto, Canada, for the women's wheelchair basketball World Championships which start on Friday.