PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Coach of Sophie Pascore will become a Performance Coach for Paralympicz New Zealand para-swimming programme.

Eight of the best teams will compete in Vancouver just two months prior to playing at the World Championships.

Sochi 2014 gold medallists Gallagher and Evans recognised together with Jenny Archer in Queen's birthday honours list.

Since becoming Weir's coach in 2002, Archer has seen her prodigy win six Paralympic golds and six world titles

Great Britain’s Aled Davies wins the public vote after breaking the discus world record at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Grosseto, Italy.

Filled with Sochi 2014 highlights and a special feature about the 25 years since the IPC was founded, the second edition of 2014 will not disappoint.

IPC Shooting is offering visually impaired athletes the chance to take part in a demonstration event during the 2014 World Championships, with a view to future development of the sport under IPC Shooting.

Speaking at the 6th International Working Group (IWG) World Conference on Women and Sport in Helsinki, Finland, the IPC President outlined the Paralympic Movement's long term ambition.

For most coaches, managing one team is stressful enough, but preparing two teams for upcoming World Championships in successive months takes some doing.

The IPC Athletics Grand Prix series moves to Africa for the 8th Tunis International Meeting on 16-18 June, marking the first time the continent has staged a major IPC Athletics event.

Four-time world champion and double Paralympic champion Sarah Louise Rung reveals that despite winning four gold medals at the 2013 worlds, she can swim better and faster at Eindhoven 2014.

Officials from Inas - the International Federation for Sport for athletes with an intellectual impairment - this week concluded their second site visit to Guayaquil, Ecuador, venue for the 2015 Inas Global Games.

Australian Open and Roland Garros champion Jordanne Whiley is among three Brits on the Tennis Foundation’s Performance Programme set to contest the wheelchair tennis doubles event at Wimbledon this year after the British No. 1 and British No.2 Lucy Shuker gained direct entry for the women’s doubles with their respective partners.

Media can now apply to cover the biggest para-swimming event in Europe in 2014

IPC Athletics, the global governing body of para-athletics, has launched its Education Pathways Programme which aims to improve the standards of classifiers, technical officials and coaches within the sport.

Interested media can now apply to cover the biggest para-shooting event in 2014

The 2015 Laureus World Sports Awards, the premier honours event in the international sporting calendar, is to be held in Shanghai, China.

Australia’s para-cycling selections for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games will be headlined by seven-time Paralympian Kieran Modra and his pilot 2010 Commonwealth team sprint champion Jason Niblett.

Slovakia’s Veronika Vadovicova claimed three gold medals at the 2014 IPC Shooting World Cup in Fort Benning, USA, whilst Great Britain claimed an impressive nine medals in total.

Australia’s Scott Reardon is relishing the prospect of racing Heinrich Popow in Berlin next weekend (20-22 June) for the first time since they tied for gold at last year’s World Championships, and believes that eventually either he or his German rival will smash the 12 second barrier for the 100m T42.