PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

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The long-time high performance coach will be one of the keynote speakers at the inaugural conference this December in Colorado Springs, USA.

The 2015 World Rowing Championships is held in Aiguebelette, France.

Norway’s Birgit Skarstein and Australia’s Erik Horrie won the AS women and men’s single sculls semi-finals, respectively, moving closer to defending their world titles.

Group of young people sitting around a table with laptops, discussing

Workshop with around 50 journalists, designers, programmers and students kicks off celebrations for one year to Rio 2016.

Man in a sledge, playing hockey on the ice

Fresh from silver-medal success in wheelchair basketball at Toronto 2015, Liam Hickey is hoping to make his Team Canada dreams a reality again.

Mariska Beijer

The defending European women’s champions defeated the London 2012 Paralympic champions on day six.

Man in wheelchair doing a dancing pose

Hungary will enter their first competition being held in St. Petersburg alongside athletes from nearly 20 countries.

Michael McKillop, Stef Reid and Scott Reardon.

Find out family connections for Michael McKillop, Scott Reardon and Stef Reid are spurring them on to even greater things.

Jason Smyth, the fastest Paralympic athlete on the planet.

Irishman, the fastest para-athlete of all time, in Brazil to help celebrate one year until the Games.

David Brown trains with his guide Jerome Avery in Urca.

Unprecedented race will bring together runners with different types of disability in celebration of one year until the Paralympic Games.

Wheelchair athlete on the track

The T34 wheelchair racer talks about the influence of Kurt Fearnley and how he is aiming to win his first world title this October.