PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
![Iran's Morteza Mehrzadselakjani spikes the ball in a sitting volleyball game](/sites/default/files/2021-09/1806238.jpg)
Reigning champions Iran continue their dominance in sitting volleyball
While Brazil take the women's sitting volleyball bronze medal
![Yang Qiuxia on the podium with gold medal and flowers](/sites/default/files/2021-09/GettyImages-1338222291.jpg)
How Atlanta 1996 stars paved way for Para badminton debut at the Paralympic Games
Olympic silver medallist Dong Jiong has been a driving force behind the sport's development in China
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Tokyo Paralympics: Para athletics day 10 preview
Five marathon races wrap up the action in the last day of the Paralympic Games at the National Olympic Stadium on Sunday
![Three male pistol shooters competing in a shooting range](/sites/default/files/2021-09/51423488389_be4ce92c45_c.jpg)
India and Serbia celebrate one-two shooting podiums in Tokyo
Dragan Ristic becomes first Paralympic champion in the R9 - mixed 50m rifle prone SH2 as Indian shooters continue to make history at the Paralympic Games
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Gold medal a story of resilience for canoeists Fernando Rufino, Edina Mueller
Canoe competition concludes at Tokyo 2020 with five Paralympic champions celebrating
![A female Para athletics athlete holding the flag of Azerbaijan](/sites/default/files/2021-09/GettyImages-1338172257%20%281%29.jpg)
Azerbaijan's gold medal rush continues on morning of day 11
Valiyeva and Aslanov triumph on penultimate day as Cockroft and Ktila add new Paralympic titles to their collection at the National Stadium
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USA and Tatyana McFaddden take historic universal relay gold
Germany's Johannes Floors wins his first individual Paralympic gold with Peter Genyn getting the revenge over Toni Piispanen
![New members of the IPC Athletes Council are introduced during the closing ceremony of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.](/sites/default/files/images/161216093705047_Athletes%2BCouncil.jpg)
Six new members of IPC Athletes' Council elected at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
Turnout a record 55.5 per cent, up 1.5 per cent on Rio 2016
![Wheelchair racer Walid Ktila celebrates with the Tunisian flag after winning the 800m](/sites/default/files/2021-09/Walid-Ktila-Tunisia.jpg)
Pace drives Tunisia’s Walid Ktila to dizzying heights
‘Awareness is a key for change and every time I win a medal, or my teammates, we get heard’
![Indian shooters Manish Narwal and Singhraj Adana share the podium](/sites/default/files/2021-09/shooting-India2.jpeg)
Manish Narwal and Singhraj Adana take double shooting medals for India
This was India’s third gold at the ongoing Games, taking the medal tally to 15