PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Hannah Cockroft - best and worst career moment

The T34 wheelchair racer talks about her career highs and lows as she prepares to defend her Paralympic titles at Rio 2016.

More than 20 alpine skiers, snowboarders, their coaches and guides from seven countries participated in the first PyeongChang 2018 Actualising the Dream education and training workshops which concluded in Stara Planina, Serbia.

Twenty-three athletes, coaches and guides were introduced to the Paralympic Movement and received training from experienced professionals in Stara Planina, Serbia.

Representatives of the International Paralympic Committee, IPC Shooting and the Italian Shotgun Shooting Federation met in Rome, Italy, on 21 January, to discuss the continued development of para-clay target shooting towards becoming an IPC Shooting recognised discipline.

Further meetings were held in January to discuss classification research.

Aerial view of the Tokyo Skytree

Plans to deliver a minimal impact Paralympic and Olympic Games have been outlined.

Evan Strong, Mike Shea and Keith Gabel

The USA’s Amy Purdy and Mike Schultz and Dutch Paralympic and world champion Bibian Mentel-Spee will all make their return from Thursday (4 February).

In meIn’s C1 racing, China’s Zhang Yu Li earned his second gold medal in as many days at the 2015 UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championships.

Seminars were held in Tokyo to discuss how to diversify the sport in the region.

Two snowboarders race on a slope

Many sports in the Rio 2016 Paralympic programme are back in action for the first time this year.

View on a slope with sit skier passing

The USA’s Oksana Masters and Canada’s Mark Arendz also secure victories in PyeongChang, South Korea.

Collage of five images showing five athletes

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

A picture of a woman showing her both gold medals

The National Paralympic Committee expects to distribute approximately BRL 3 million in rewards.