PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Ellie Simmonds

British Paralympic swimming champion says Yelyzaveta Mereshko will push her to the maximum at July’s World Championships in Glasgow.

Dream Programme in South Korea

More than 170 athletes, including 26 from seven National Paralympic Committees, are taking part in the initiative which aims to develop winter sports.

Two men in wheelchair on ice, looking at some curling stones.

Winter sports dominate a busy month of sport in February, but the para-athletics season will also get underway in Dubai, UAE.

Ice sledge hockey Canada

The USA win 3-2 against Russia in a replay of the Sochi 2014 final, and Canada beat South Korea in an 8-0 rout in Leduc, Canada.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

Event on 5 March is an opportunity to try various Paralympic sports.

France's Benjamin Daviet helped to secure victory over world champions Russia at Cable 2015.

Benjamin Daviet, Anthony Chalencon, Lucas Duperrex and Thomas Clarion beat the reigning open relay world champions at the 2015 IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships.

Austria and Finland go head-to-head in January 2015's playoff to decide which team progresses to the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships B-Pool.

In a match both teams could have won, Austria came from one goal down to secure the deciding win.

Marta Zaynullina, Russia pushes on

The cross-country relays will round-off the 2015 IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships in Cable, Wisconsin, USA on Sunday (1 February).

The USA's Andrew Soule won an historic five golds medals at Cable 2015

Germany’s Andrea Eskau completed a trio of cross-country victories and Oleksandra Kononova completed her clean sweep of six golds.

Athlete practicing para-canoe

There will be three men’s and three women’s events in kayak when the sport makes its Paralympic debut.