PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Vanessa Low GER competes in the Women's Long Jump - T42 Final at the Olympic Stadium.

The German will miss July’s World Para Athletics Championships in order to prolong her career until Tokyo 2020.

Two men in tracksuits stand behind three people sat at a table.  In the background is an athletics stadium.

In addition to supporting July’s World Para Athletics Championships, the company will be a team support of British Athletics Para team.

Nottwil 2017 World Para Athletics Junior Championships logo

The website for the first ever World Para Athletics Junior Championships has been launched to mark four months to go.

Picture of swimming officials

Courses will be run in Berlin, Germany, before the World Para Swimming World Series in July.

Woman riding a horse

Great Britain’s Isobelle Palmer stole the show at the first major Para equestrian competition of 2017.

The Paralympic Movement's Athletes' Council.

Para athletes from around the world interested in engaging with the IPC and IPC Athletes’ Council have until 7 April to register.

World Anti Doping Agency's Logo.

Report illustrates doping offences committed in global sport during 2015

USA v Canada at the Harborcenter in Buffalo, NY. May 3, 2015. Gold Medal Game - 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships A-Pool. Photo by Bill Wippert

Team USA learning better puck retrieval skills heading into 2017 World Championships.

Two men playing wheelchair rugby collide their chairs.

Three nations from these will Zonal Championships will qualify for the 2018 World Championship.

Two Japanese men pose for a photo as a woman hands over a cell phone

The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee has begun its project of using recycled metals to create the gold, silver and bronze Games medals.