PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Gary Farmer

Great Britain’s Gary Farmer hopes to anchor No. 6-seeded Great Britain at the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey Qualification Tournament.

Tatyana McFadden

The USA’s Tatyana McFadden and South Africa’s Ernst Van Dyk scooped up Chicago Marathon titles over the weekend.

Kazuhiro Takahashi

What you need to know about Japan before the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey Qualification Tournament, which takes place from 20-26 October in Torino, Italy.

Great Britain's ice sledge hockey team

What you need to know about Great Britain before the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey Qualification Tournament, which takes place from 20-26 October in Torino, Italy.

Hannah Cockroft set a new Paralympic record in the women's 100m - T34 at the London 2012 Paralympic Games

48 athletes and relay team with potential to medal at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games to receive support from governing body in 2013-14.

A picture of a man skiing

Reigning world champion aims to be back on the slopes just one month before Sochi, after injury strikes again in first part of the season.

A picture of the ice sledge hockey player on a field

Canada will host Japan, Russia and the USA from 1-7 December at the MasterCard Centre.

Markus Salcher

My journey to Sochi 2014 started when I picked up my skis as a little two and a half year old kid on the slopes.

A picture of a woman at the shooting competition

Find out the top storylines to follow at the upcoming IPC Shooting European Championships this month.

Gift Mooketsi of South Africa attends a a training session at the Landessportzentrum Thueringen on June 29, 2012 in Erfurt, Germany. Photo by Karina Hessland

The competition has been moved from Egypt to Angola due to political instability in the region.