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No. 42 Para-Canoe - Austria’s Mendy Swoboda
Canoe

With Rio 2016 just two years away, Austria’s Markus Mendy Swoboda won his fifth successive para-canoe crown at the World Championships.

Alex Zanardi
Wheelchair Rugby

This month is packed full of sport with a number of world and regional championships taking place. What will you be watching this month?

Scotland's Neil Fachie and co-pilot Craig MacLean celebrate their para-cycling victory at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Goalball

Take a look back at what happened in global para-sport during July, a month that featured three World Championships, one European Championships, a World Cup and the Commonwealth Games.

Tom Kierey
Canoe

Keirey takes gold for Germany, as Great Britain claim seven gold medals at the 2014 ECA Canoe Sprint European Championships in Brandenburg, Germany.

Tom Kierey
Canoe

A record number of athletes are competing from over 20 European countries at the 2014 European para-canoe Championships in Brandenburg, Germany.

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Rio 2016

The International Triathlon Union (ITU), in conjunction with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), has announced three of the six medal events that will be contested in para-triathlon’s debut at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

A man paddles in a canoe.
Canoe

Find out which athletes are on top form heading into the summer’s World Championships.

canoeist on water
Canoe

World champions Fernando Fernandes and Marta Ferreira are inspired by the chance to race at an iconic city venue in front of their home fans.

Fernando Fernandes
Canoe

Fernando Fernandes and Debora Benivides were the biggest starts of the event in Sao Paulo.

Austria's Mendy Swoboda won his second world title in the para-canoe K1 men’s 200m TA event.
Canoe

The 23-year-old amputee has declared himself one of the canoeist’s to beat on the road to the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Tom Kierey
Canoe

Tom Kierey won a title for the host nation and Fernando Fernandes won his third world title at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.

Austria's Mendy Swoboda won his second world title in the para-canoe K1 men’s 200m TA event.
Canoe

Find out how Austria, Brazil and Canada made their way to the top of the podium at the ICF Para-Canoe World Championships.

Jeannette Chippington
Canoe

Jeannette Chippington picked up three medals for Great Britain in Duisburg, Germany.

A picture of a man in the pool sitting on the swimming line with his hand up
Swimming

With six World and four regional Championships, and major winter sport events, August will be a busy month for para-sport.

Amanda Drennan trains in the canoe
Rio 2016

Australian Paralympic swimmer has switched her focus to canoe for the Rio 2016 Games.

canoeist on water
Rio 2016

The No. 46 moment in Paralympic sport of 2012 is when Brazilian Fernando Fernandes won his third para-canoe world crown.

A picture of 2 men in a canoe shaking their hands celebrating a victory
Canoe

The fourth edition of the Para-Canoe World Championships will take place this week in a sport that has been added to the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games programme.

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