The German wheelchair basketball player talks about returning home for the first time since London 2012
Para Ice Hockey
Athletics
Kelly Cartwright and Evan O’Hanlon were named Athletes with a Disability of the Year at the Athletics Australia awards.
Wheelchair Basketball
After settling for silver at the previous Paralympics and World Championships, Germany’s women’s wheelchair basketball team got their gold at London 2012.
Athletics
Kenya’s NPC was named the nation’s best sports organisation of the year.
Equestrian
Michèle George became the first Paralympic athlete to win Belgium’s equestrian rider of the year award.
Sochi 2014
The Sochi 2014 Organising Committee has set 1 March 2013 as the closing date for volunteer applications.
Swimming
The women’s 4x100m medley relay 34 points in London could not have been closer, with Australia’s Jacqueline Freney touching the wall first for her eighth gold at the Games.
Para Ice Hockey
USA defeated Canada, 1-0, for first place and Norway beat Japan, 5-0, for third place at the World Sledge Hockey Challenge in Calgary.
Shooting
UAE shooting athlete Abdullah Alaryani created the No. 24 moment of 2012 when he beat 28-time Paralympic medallist Jonas Jacobsson for gold.