PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

The Irish runner Jason Smyth competes in the men's 100m - T13 heats at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

After each winning two European titles in 2014, both make the shortlist for the RTÉ Sport Sports Person of the Year.

Portrait picture of a women in Team USA uniform in front of a landscape

Team USA’s Elizabeth Broad, Senior Sports Dietician, details the benefits of vitamin D for an athlete

Women in white clothes holds a Chinese flag

Chinese athlete has a year to remember in 2014 winning world and Asian Para Games titles.

Logo NPC Chile

Defending Parapan champion Cristian Dettoni amongst the line-up

Matt Formston and Michael Curran

Invercargill, New Zealand, stages its first ever UCI Para-Cycling C1 Track event

Talisson Glock Montreal 2013

Americans Kayla Wheeler and Robert Griswold and Brazilians Daniel Dias and Talisson Glock tear down regional records in Edmonton, Canada.

Little girls plays with football

Nottingham 2015 CPISRA World Games announces female CP Football camp

Tokyo 2020 react to the news that they have won the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Host city of the 2024 Games to be selected in the summer of 2017

Mac Marcoux in a close-up focussing on the slalom pole in front of him

More than 40 athletes will gather for the very first high-level race of the season from 9-10 December.

Blindfolded women and man crossing a finish line in a stadium

In front of a passionate home crowd, Clegg and Huggins won Scotland’s first Commonwealth track medal for 20 years