PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

A man with a silver helmet and red jersey leans forward on his racing wheelchair

The IPC Athletics Grand Prix moves to Nottwil, Switzerland, for the first European leg of the series, headlined by the Saturday evening session.

Chuck Aoki

The wheelchair rugby player blogs about the first steps in changing perceptions in America about people with an impairment.

Great Britain's Hannah Cockroft on her way to a new 200m T34 world record in Nottwil, Switzerland in May 2014.

First day of IPC Athletics Grand Prix also saw Marcel Hug beat David Weir over 10,000m

A woman looks up as she races in a wheelchair at the front of the pack with fans along the side of the road.

The T54 wheelchair racer will compete in front of a familiar crowd in the fifth stop on the 2014 IPC Athletics Grand Prix.

Marlou van Rhijn

The Netherlands’ superstar world and Paralympic champion sprinter will compete over 400m at the 2014 IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Switzerland.

Picture of IPC Chief Executive Xavier Gonzalez and his Rio 2016 counterpart Sidney Levy dressed in suits seated behind two microphones on a table in a formal meeting.

Two day project review in Rio concludes as IPC Vice President Andrew Parsons is appointed Chair of Rio 2016 Paralympic Integration Committee

Giant 2.3m by 2.5m horse hoof prints created in the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel by French artist and sand sculptor Christophe Dumont mark 100 days to the start of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.

Giant hoof prints on Normandy beach have marked the milestone ahead of the biggest para-equestrian event of the year.

A group of photographers' backs are shown as the walk across an equestrian venue.

Do you have what it takes to be a top equestrian photographer?

An athlete lies on his stomach on a stability ball with both his arms stretched out to the sides holding weights.

The Canadian ice sledge hockey Paralympic bronze medallist shares some of his latest training tips for the next Paralympic cycle.

The back of Luis Felipe Gutierrez Rivero is seen as he jumps over the high bar.

Allianz and Paralympic Movement strengthen their ties