PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Collage of six images showing athletes

Six para-athletes are up for the World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability category.

Collage of five athlete photos

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

A rider on a black horse

A mix of para-equestrian riders will test themselves ahead of the Rio 2016 Games at the competition in Doha, Qatar.

Five men and one women all put their hands together and smile to the camera

The Lima 2019 Organising Committee has signed an agreement with the Americas Paralympic Committee to stage the biggest ever Parapan American Games.

Graphic with a picture of a man on a podium, celebrating

The British discus and shot put world champion recalls the highs and lows of London 2012 and Glasgow 2014.

A man and a woman in a stadium, with spadens, working on an athletics track

British Paralympian Richard Whitehead helped remove the finish line of the old track to mark 500 days to go until the 2017 Para-athletics World Championships.

a female from Australia competing in a wheelchair with green and yellow clothes and a white helmet

The T53 racer set new world records over 400m and 800m in 2015 and is targeting her first Paralympic gold at Rio 2016.

Coral Batey is not fazed by being the only woman in the Great Britain squad.

European champions among three teams to test the venues for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Alain Dehaze with Ayumi Kunori

Online applications open from 1 March to 15 April.

Mac Marcoux in a close-up focussing on the slalom pole in front of him

Close races loom as skiers go head-to-head for overall super-G and downhill globes between 1-4 March.