PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Paralympic medallists Ben Quilter, Sophie Wells and Will Bayley

A number of British Paralympic medallists will join National Paralympic Day celebrations in Brighton, Nottingham and Plymouth.

Ukraine faces Japan during the Cerebral Palsy Football 7-a-side World Championships 2015 on 18 June in St. George’s Park in Great Britain.

After two weeks of intense competition at the Cerebral Palsy Football 7-a-side World Championships find out who made the team of the tournament.

Three men in suits, one of them showing an award to the camera.

The award is bestowed upon heads of state who have contributed to the development of the Paralympic Movement.

Portrait photo of a dark haired man

At October’s conference in Girona, Spain, David Sanz-Rivas, Scientific Director Royal Spanish Tennis Federation will talk about the athlete pathway from grassroots to elite performance.

Group shot on an athletics track

The National Paralympic Committee gathered together supporters and partners to offer try-outs of wheelchair basketball, table-tennis and football-5-a-side.

Two women smiling at each other in a swimmig pool after a race

Ukrainian Yelyzaveta Mereshko is hoping to challenge the dominance of Great Britain’s multiple world and Paralympic champion at the swimming Worlds from 13 July.

Women runs on a blue track, looks focused

Norman breaks 10-year-old women’s 800m T44 record by 10 seconds.

Man in wheelchair explains to audience

Keen to get involved with para-sport ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, 16 new national referees received training and passed their exam.

World Anti Doping Agency's Logo.

WADA Talks is a new interview series to feature sport and government leaders

The IBSA European Goalball Championships will take place in Kaunas, Lithuania, Sabonis Basketball Hall and Kaunas Sports Hall, between 5-12 July and will act as a qualifier for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

The event which is a Rio 2016 Paralympic qualifier gets underway on 5 July in Lithuania.