PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

A young boy and girl with a man and a woman posing for the photo

Father Josef and mother Marien cheered for their children Carina and her brother guide Julian as they took gold at the 2017 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships.

Two cross-country skiers with an Austrian flag

Guides from Norway, Ukraine and Germany shared their thoughts whilst they compete at the 2017 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships.

Ukraine's Paralympic champions Oleksandra Kononova and Grygorii Vovchynskyi married in 2011.  Both are competing at the 2017 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships in Finsterau, Germany.

Paralympic champions Oleksandra Kononova and Grygorii Vovchynskyi, who married in 2011, are representing Ukraine at the World Para Nordic Skiing Championships in Finsterau.

Ruth Hagspiel - alpine skiing

Medallists from the recently concluded World Para Alpine Skiing Championships highlight the fields for slalom and giant slalom.

ASOS renews partnership with ParalympicsGB team

The partnership with the global retailer will cover PyeongChang 2018 and Tokyo 2020.

Day 2 Highlights: 2017 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships

The US sit-skier was the fastest in the women’s cross-country sprint race to claim her maiden world title in Finsterau, Germany.

Track cyclist

Great Britain´s most decorated female Paralympian is yet not satisfied with her medal haul and aims to win more titles in four-years-time.

Group picture on a tennis court with some people in wheelchairs

The 16-year-old wheelchair tennis player dreams of reaching the top spot in the women´s rankings, emulating what her hero and tennis legend Martina Hingis did over a decade ago.

Paralympics New Zealand - logo for stories

The third edition of this event since the end of Rio 2016 will take place on 18 February and aims to raise awareness of Para sports in the country.

Successful sporting events are a consequence of the hard work of many people behind the scenes.

Successful sporting events are a consequence of the hard work of many people behind the scenes.