PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Finland's Petri Posio and Erkki Miinala block the ball during their gold-medal match at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. After winning Paralympic gold, the Finnish squad will now host the 2014 World Championships.

Jarkko Pokkinen was named head coach of the Finish men’s goalball team and Raphael Moreira was announced as coach of the Brazilian table tennis team.

Man sitting on a track raising one arm

Running from March to June, the 2017 Grand Prix season will involve nine events, including one in Paris for the first time.

Skier in orange and white ski suit, skis at speed down slope

A series of athletes also emerged onto the podium for the first time in Slovenia on Wednesday (18 January).

Anna Schaffelhuber

Germany’s five-time Paralympic champion is building towards the 2017 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships

Shingo Kunieda

The UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour started with 11 tournaments in 1992 and consists now of more than 150 annually over 40 countries.

Ihar Boki competes at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain.

Ten wheelchair fencers and 32 swimmers have been named as athletes to look out for in 2017.

The Alpensia Resort is seen from above on February 10, 2015 in the mountain cluster of Pyeongchang, South Korea.

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Para Nordic Skiing World Cup Western Center - Ukraine

France’s Para Nordic skier won the men’s Individual visually impaired race in Western Center, Ukraine, on 17 January.

A quarter of a million schoolchildren across Greater London given opportunity to attend the World Para Athletics Championships London 2017.

A quarter of a million schoolchildren across Greater London given opportunity to attend the World Para Athletics Championships London 2017.

View on slopes in the sunshine

A host of world champions and World Cup leaders will line up for slalom and giant slalom in Slovenia from 18-20 January, ahead of the Worlds.