PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Women’s 400m freestyle S6

Ukraine’s Yelyzaveta Mereshko and Great Britain’s Eleanor Simmonds will fight in the race for the title.

Two judo athletes fighting on a tatami or judo mat.

Mouloud Noura is among those to watch at the Paralympics Games.

Logo of the Agitos Foundation

The organisation has already played a major part in the development of Para sports and will now support education programmes for the next five years.

Woman on horse

Get to know the Australian grade II rider ahead of Rio 2016.

Pavlos Mamalos

Aiming for a first Paralympic medal Mamalos shares his training schedule and nutrition.

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Athletes from Cuba, Canada, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands and China happy to move in and eager to start competing.

Aerial view on stadium

The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, the world’s biggest Para sport competition, will headline this month’s events.

Logo IPC Academy

The Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Worcester will speak during at the Campus’ Games Experience Programme session.

Isis Holt of Australia competes in the women's 200m T35 final during the Evening Session at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar.

We pick out eight talented youngsters who could light up the Olympic Stadium at the Paralympic Games.

Agitos

The decision was taken after more than 175 Russian athletes wrote letters to the IPC asking to compete as neutral athletes.