PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
![Salman Abbariki, a member of the Refugee Paralympic Team at Paris 2024, prepares to throw](/sites/default/files/2024-07/Salman%20Abbariki%2C%20Para%20athletics%2C%20Refugee%20ParalympicTeam%40Tobias%20Lackner.jpg)
Q&A with Refugee Paralympic Team athlete Salman Abbariki
Salman Abbariki will compete in Para athletics as a member of the largest-ever Refugee Paralympic Team
![Amelio Castro Gruesso, a member of the Refugee Paralympic Team at Paris 2024, is wearing his wheelchair fencing gear](/sites/default/files/2024-07/resized-Amelio%20Castro%20Gruesso%2C%20RPT.jpg)
Q&A with Refugee Paralympic Team athlete Amelio Castro Grueso
Amelio Castro Grueso will compete in wheelchair fencing at Paris 2024 as a member of the largest-ever Refugee Paralympic Team
![Sayed Amir Hossein Pour, a member of the Refugee Paralympic Team, competes in Para table tennis](/sites/default/files/2024-07/Hosseinipour%20Ain%20RPT%201.jpg)
Q&A with Refugee Paralympic Team athlete Sayed Amir Hossein Hosseini Pour
Sayed Amir Hossein Hosseini Pour will compete in Para table tennis as a member of the largest-ever Refugee Paralympic Team
![Hadi Hassanzada, a member of the Refugee Paralympic Team at Paris 2024, is photographed wearing the taekwondo gear.](/sites/default/files/2024-07/Hadi%20Hassanzada%2C%20RPT%2C%20%40World%20Taekwondo.jpg)
Q&A with Refugee Paralympic Team athlete Hadi Hassanzada
Hadi Hassanzada will compete in Para taekwondo as a member of the largest-ever Refugee Paralympic Team
![A collaged photo of eight athletes and a guide runner](/sites/default/files/2024-07/Refugee%20Paralympic%20Team%20with%20logo.jpg)
IPC unveils largest Refugee Paralympic Team ever for Paris 2024
Eight athletes and one guide runner will compete at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games as part of the largest-ever Refugee Paralympic Team
![Wheelchair fencer Bebe Vio competing at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games](/sites/default/files/2023-11/GettyImages-1337012863.jpg)
Paris 2024: Introduction to wheelchair fencing
As many as 96 wheelchair fencing athletes will compete in 16 medal events at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games
![🏀🏀 Ones to Watch in Wheelchair Basketball at Paris 2024! 🌟| Paralympic Games](/sites/default/files/styles/video_crop_16_9/public/oembed_thumbnails/e5w37feNjRE6eF35xGGlgnTt0zsNqZ7v0A0os6P5JRw.jpg?itok=vrqBqQun)
Paris 2024: Ones to Watch in wheelchair basketball
The wheelchair basketball players you should be looking out for when the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games open on 28 August
![A female wheelchair basketball waves the Dutch flag to celebrate after a victory](/sites/default/files/2024-07/Jitske%20Visser%2C%20Tokyo%202020%2C%20wheelchair%20basketball%2C%20Netherlands.jpg)
Paris 2024: Jitske Visser looks forward to fifth Games
Dutch wheelchair basketball player Jitske Visser has won three medals across four Games, and she is hungry for more
![Two Para swimmers in an open water competition](/sites/default/files/2024-07/Sardinia%202023%20Open%20Water%20Cup%20race%202.jpg)
Open Water Cup returns to Sardinia in September
Italian island to host second edition of the World Para Swimming open water race following successful inaugural event last year in San Teodoro
![A male wheelchair basketball player posing for a photo while holding a gold medal.](/sites/default/files/2024-07/Steve%20Serio%2C%20Tokyo%202020%2C%20USA%20wheelchair%20basketball.jpg)
Paris 2024: Steve Serio aims to crown career with third consecutive gold
Steve Serio led the USA to back-to-back gold medals in wheelchair basketball at Tokyo 2020. As we approach the Paris 2024 Paralympics, we caught up with Serio, who is training for his fifth Games