PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Mac Marcoux and his brother

The mission for Mac and BJ is to compete together without the same injury-plagued season the world champions experienced during 2014-15.

Football players on a blue field of play

Coming off a bronze medal at the CP Football 7-a-side World Championships, Brazil is the team to beat at the Parapan Am Games.

Crossing the finishing line in Beijing

Some of the world’s best athletes, including Paralympic and world champions, will be going for gold in Toronto.

Toronto 2015 emblem

Brayan Urbano claimed the first gold of the Games at the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre

2011 Manchester World Cup

Canada’s women’s wheelchair basketball team will start their Toronto 2015 campaign on Saturday (7 August).

Mark Ledo of Team Canada competes in the men's individual H3 road race in the 2012 London Paralympics at Brands Hatch.

Regular updates from the first day of action from the Parapan American Games

Jorge Carinao Cárdenas claims gold on the first day of powerlifting at the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games on Saturday (8 August). He faces the camera holding the TO2015 mascot and his gold medal.

The first day of powerlifting at Toronto 2015 saw records broken and three gold medals won.

Canada's most successful ever athlete Chantal Petitclerc lights the Toronto 2015 Parapan Am cauldorn.

More than 1,600 athletes from 28 countries will compete in the coming days in 15 sports.

Matt Stutzman

The second day of competition could be “Super Sunday” for Canada with the hosts looking to win multiple golds in swimming.

Argentina's Mariela Delgardo is the first Argentinian athlete to compete in both the Pan and Parapan American Games.

Having already competed in last month’s Pan Ams, Argentina’s Mariela Delgado will go for gold on Saturday in the Parapan American Games too.