PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

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Paralympian Melissa Tapper will compete against the best able-bodied table tennis players in the Oceania region.

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Turkey’s women’s wheelchair basketball team can use the IWBF European Wheelchair Basketball Championships as their first step toward Paralympic qualification.

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32 athletes announced after vying for position at national championships.

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With less than a month to go until the World Championships in Lyon, athletes will get one final chance to scope out their competition at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix Final this weekend.

A picture of a woman in a wheelchair during an athletics race

With less than a month to go until the World Championships in Lyon, athletes will get one final chance to scope out their competition at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix Final this weekend.

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All nominees in the Best Male and Best Female Athlete with a Disability categories are Paralympians this year.

Poland wheelchair rugby

Eight squads will battle it out in Warsaw this weekend.

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Weir speaks ahead of the IPC Athletics Grand Prix final this weekend and the Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games in July.

The winners of the Men's Shot Put F20 Final at the London 2012 Paralympic Games show their medals

Squad is headlined by World Champion Jeffrey Ige as well as young hopefuls beginning their road to Rio 2016.

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Coach Mario Poletti is confident of team success at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships.