PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Man in a sledge, playing hockey on the ice

Fresh from silver-medal success in wheelchair basketball at Toronto 2015, Liam Hickey is hoping to make his Team Canada dreams a reality again.

Mariska Beijer

The defending European women’s champions defeated the London 2012 Paralympic champions on day six.

Man in wheelchair doing a dancing pose

Hungary will enter their first competition being held in St. Petersburg alongside athletes from nearly 20 countries.

Michael McKillop, Stef Reid and Scott Reardon.

Find out family connections for Michael McKillop, Scott Reardon and Stef Reid are spurring them on to even greater things.

Jason Smyth, the fastest Paralympic athlete on the planet.

Irishman, the fastest para-athlete of all time, in Brazil to help celebrate one year until the Games.

David Brown trains with his guide Jerome Avery in Urca.

Unprecedented race will bring together runners with different types of disability in celebration of one year until the Paralympic Games.

Wheelchair athlete on the track

The T34 wheelchair racer talks about the influence of Kurt Fearnley and how he is aiming to win his first world title this October.

Vinicius and Tom, mascots for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The two-day festival will include a race to define the world’s fastest sprinter, plus a rival football match between Brazil and Argentina.

Two athletes doing taekwondo

Five World Championships events in para-sport will be scattered throughout this month, along with four regional Championships.

Collage of five athlete photos

The public has until 9 September to vote for their favourite from the five candidates.