PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Dominik MOSLER, shot from the top of the key

Eight wheelchair basketball teams compete for European glory in Zaragoza, Spain.

Richard Browne and Jonnie Peacock

The 2014 para-athletics season is slowly drawing to a close, so here is recap of 10 things we learned this year.

A group of people pose in front of an Agitos Foundation pull-up

A group of coordinators from African countries have reported on how they have developed athletes for national teams.

Allianz Fact of the week Football 5

The game uses a special ball with a bell inside that makes a noise as it moves to guide the players. Each team also has a guide behind the opponent’s goal to direct the players when they shoot.

A player wearing blue seated in a wheelchair with a white ball on his lap about to collide with an opponent wearing white.

Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Chile all qualify for next year’s Parapan American Games

Man on a track holding a handbike above his head and smiling

On 5 September 2012, 21 years after he last raced there in Formula 3000, a laughing Alex Zanardi hoisted his handcycle aloft at Brands Hatch and punched the air after winning double gold at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

A woman in a wheelchair hits a tennis ball as a backhand.

Japanese world number ones will be aiming for title success at Flushing Meadows

Richard Browne of the United States looks on after the Men's 100m T44 heats on day 7 of the London 2012 Paralympic Games

Two races – the men’s 200m T44 and women’s 400m T34-54 – will take place at the final Diamond League meeting of the year.

Two men on a press conference podium.

German Thomas Weirkert succeeds Canadian Adham Sharara who has taken up his new role as ITTF President

Lin Ma

The Chinese class 9 player has had a tough season, but hopes to make a comeback at the 2014 ITTF Para-Table Tennis World Championships in Beijing.