Paralympic News: Follow the latest IPC news and top stories featuring Paralympic athletes
![Ellie Cole, Natalie Du Toit](/sites/default/files/images/120907224340451_12.jpg)
Baby steps on return to pool for Cole
Australian multiple Paralympic champion Ellie Cole is on a come-back from injury and aims to be back on form for Glasgow 2015.
![Man doing powerlifting on a bench](/sites/default/files/images/141024123046830_Rahman%2BSiamand%2BIncheon_0.jpg)
Powerlifting: Top seven lifts of 2014
To end 2014, we focus on seven huge lifts that had us all talking during the season.
![Veronika Vadovicova 2014](/sites/default/files/images/140609120203442_Vadovicova%2BFort%2BBenning_0.jpg)
Top shooters of 2014
After a packed season which featured a World Championships, Asian Para Games and World Cups, find out who is topping the rankings and why.
“Challenging” courses will greet skiers at Panorama 2015
Markus Walser, Chairperson of the IPC Alpine Skiing Sport Technical Committee, conducted a site visit for the alpine skiing World Championships.
![Matti Suur-Hamari](/sites/default/files/images/140213114021971_12484664984_9d1ebaafb0_z_0.jpg)
Matti Suur-Hamari: Five snowboard training techniques
Finnish lower-limb impaired rider Suur-Hamari offers his training advice to aspiring snowboarders.
![No. 6 Australia crowned wheelchair rugby champions for the first time](/sites/default/files/images/141212152334840_6%2BBrian%2BMouridsen%2BIWRF_0.jpg)
No. 6 Australia crowned wheelchair rugby champions for the first time
After gold at London 2012, the Australian wheelchair rugby team are now world champions after success in Denmark.
![Fact of the week - Para-snowboard](/sites/default/files/images/141212155120520_CW%2B52_0.jpg)
When was para-snowboarding first introduced to the Paralympics?
In 2012 it was announced that para-snowboard would be included in the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.
![No. 7 Ukraine compete at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games](/sites/default/files/images/141212151958307_7%2BGetty%2BImages_0.jpg)
No. 7 Ukraine compete at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games
Despite huge political tensions, Ukraine stayed to compete in what they described as “the most tragic Paralympic Games in the history of Paralympic sport in Ukraine”.
![Beatrice Vio](/sites/default/files/images/130830144619238_DSC_1618.jpg)
Star performers shine at Wheelchair Fencing Grand Prix
There were few surprises as the year’s in-form athletes took titles at the final event of the year – the IWAS Wheelchair Fencing Grand Prix in Hong Kong.
![David Wagner](/sites/default/files/images/130802161247793_151273907_0.jpg)
Wagner, Kunieda and Kamiji top world rankings
American and Japanese duo finish 2014 atop the wheelchair tennis world rankings.
![Marguerite Christophers has been appointed Paralympics New Zealand Classificiation Manager from 1 January 2015.](/sites/default/files/images/141218111617572_Marguerite%2BChristophers_0.jpg)
Paralympics New Zealand appoints full-time Classification Manager
In response to dramatic growth of High Performance Programme, PNZ has appointed Marguerite Christophers
![No 8 Rehm smashing world record](/sites/default/files/images/141217165221179_8%2BMarcus%2BHartmann_0.jpg)
No. 8 Rehm smashes long jump world record
German T44 long jumper Markus Rehm beat able-bodied athletes to become German national champion and set a new para-athletics world record.
![Great Britain's Hannah Cockroft on her way to a new 200m T34 world record in Nottwil, Switzerland in May 2014.](/sites/default/files/images/140517094609717_IPC_ATH_GP_NOTTWILL_20140516_LP_0418_WEB_0.jpg)
Hannah Cockcroft aiming for triple world gold in 2015
British wheelchair racing ace is hoping to win the 100m, 200m and 800m T34 at October’s World Championships in Doha, Qatar.
![Melissa Tapper](/sites/default/files/images/131113121759117_10834035416_d77036101b_c.jpg)
ITTF announce Male and Female Para Star nominees
Six athletes and one coach from para-table tennis have been shortlisted for the awards which will be presented on 7 January 2015
![Canada's wheelchair curling team](/sites/default/files/images/140327130450578_478868421_0.jpg)
Scotland to stage 2019 World Wheelchair Curling Championships
The event will be one of four major events Scotland will stage between 2016 and 2020.
Dutch 7-a-side football team targeting Rio 2016 spot
After finishing runners-up at this summer’s European Championships, the free-scoring Dutch team now aim to make it to the Paralympic Games.
![No 10 Japanese wheelchair tennis success](/sites/default/files/images/141222100703793_10%2BGetty%2BImages_0.jpg)
No 10. Japan’s year to remember in wheelchair tennis
Kunieda and Kamiji finished the year as World No. 1’s in the men’s and women’s singles but also enjoyed great success in the doubles too.
![Marie Bochet jumps into the air to celebrate winning Paralympic gold at Sochi 2014.](/sites/default/files/images/141221111523986_11%2BGetty%2BImages_0.jpg)
No. 11 Young para-alpine skiers win big in Sochi
Nearly half of all gold medallists in para-alpine skiing at Sochi 2014 were under the age of 23, showing the sport has a bright future ahead of it.
![US para-equestrian rider Sydney Collier with service dog Journey.](/sites/default/files/images/140907113140196_Journey%2Band%2BSydney%2BCollier_0.jpg)
FEI elect new President and host awards ceremony
Belgian Ingmar De Vos is the new FEI President whilst Sydney Collier and her service dog Journey picked up the Against All Odds award.