PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Six men celebrating on a volleyball field.

The Paralympic Movement is filled with inspirational and compelling stories of triumph over adversity, but there are few stories as awe-inspiring as the Rwandan sitting volleyball team’s formation and qualification for London 2012.

Two women in wheelchairs with tennis rackets during a match

November’s event will feature 20 of the world’s best wheelchair tennis players.

Zak Madell

After a bumper month of sport in August, the nominations will be split into three categories beginning with Best Male.

Classification experts from all across the Paralympic Movement met in Bonn, Germany between 18-23 August 2014.

Meetings took place across six days to review version one of the IPC Classification Code.

Trischa Zorn

When US swimmer Trischa Zorn won her 55th and final Paralympic medal at the Athens 2004 Games, she cemented her place in the record books as the most decorated Paralympian in history.

Classification assessment

It was not until 2007 that the first universal code regarding classification was published for the benefit of the Paralympic Movement.

Sarah Storey

Of the six women’s world titles up for grabs on Sunday US and British women won five of them.

Stephane Houdet

The French defending champion believe any of the top wheelchair tennis players can win the US Open title which starts on Thursday.

Margareta Israelsson Chair of Swedish Organisation for the Disabled and Swedish Paralympic Committee

Israelsson elected chair of the Swedish Organisation for the Disabled and Swedish Paralympic Committee at an extraordinary meeting

Ernst van Dyk

Hosts USA finish the UCI Para-Cycling Road World Championships atop of the medals table after five days of thrilling competition