PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
![An athletics track in an empty stadium during the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2022-05/GettyImages-1337650825%20%281%29.jpg?h=19430e54&itok=Je0vhQDS)
BAC sanctions athlete Vinod Kumar for Intentional Misrepresentation
The results obtained by the Indian athlete in Para athletics competition at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games have been disqualified
![Dutch player Sam Schroder casts a shadow as he serves in the Australian Open final against Australia's Dylan Alcott.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2022-05/Sam%20Schroder%20Netherlands%20tennis%20australia%20open.jpg?h=722e9e6e&itok=7R5cWCVQ)
Wheelchair tennis to break new ground at Roland Garros
Record 32 wheelchair tennis players set to contest titles at one of the sport's four majors for the first time
![Argentina's Gustavo Fernandez serves in a doubles match at the 2022 Australian Open.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2022-05/Gustavo%20Fernandez%20Australian%20Open%202022%20tennis.jpg?h=c15bba75&itok=yTbkn3E6)
Top 5 tips to get started in wheelchair tennis from Grand Slam champion Fernandez
Five-time Grand Slam champion Gustavo Fernandez says wheelchair tennis is sport that can be enjoyed at all levels, from beginners to advanced players
![Marcin Polak and his pilot Michal Ladosz race on the track at Tokyo 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2022-05/Marcin%20Polak%20and%20pilot%20Michal%20Ladosz%20Tokyo%202020%20poland%20track%20cycling.jpg?h=1835bcdf&itok=exlbFJJ_)
UCI statement concerning Marcin Polak
Polak is stripped of his bronze medal in the men's 4000m individual pursuit from Tokyo 2020, which now passes to France's Alexandre Lloveras
![A woman landing in a sand box in a long jump competition](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2022-05/Salto%20femenio%205.jpg?itok=M7hRuX3B)
Fleur Jong flies high at L'Hospitalet 2022
Dutch Paralympic champion sets new world record at the traditional international Para athletics meeting in Spain on Saturday
![A female wheelchair racer celebrating on an athletics track](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2022-05/ParAthletics%20Lackner-9269.jpg?itok=9Tq9e2iQ)
Debrunner delights home fans with four world records in Nottwil
Marcel Hug is another Swiss wheelchair racing star to set a new world record during the three-day World Para Athletics Grand Prix
![Image of a female Para Athletics running in a competition](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2022-05/1805828.jpg?h=831879f5&itok=QJaoK_mz)
Paralympic champions return to L'Hospitalet
Markus Rehm and Fleur Jong join Adiaratou Iglesias and plenty of local stars at the traditional International Meeting in Spain on Saturday
![Beth Munro shouts in celebration after winning her bout at the Manchester 2022 European Championships.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2022-05/Beth%20Munro%20taekwondo%20manchester%202022%20european%20championships.jpg?h=c73431e7&itok=UElPK63_)
European Championships mark new era in Para taekwondo
New fighters emerge as Paris 2024 medal threats as Para taekwondoins compete alongside able-bodied teammates
![Two photos of blind skateboarder Dan Mancina doing tricks. In the first one he is jumping on a rail and in the second he is jumping over a person while holding a white cane.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2023-08/mancina%20skate%20usa2.jpg?itok=F36aYHvY)
Blind skateboarder Mancina on mission to build world's first adaptive skatepark
Detroit-based rider returned to skateboarding after losing all of his vision and now wants to help others with vision impairments pick up the sport
![Glass-looking trophies for sitting volleyball World Championships medallists](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/images/180714104945339_sitting-volleyball-world-championships-netherlands.jpg?itok=vUbeCgga)
Pieter Joon to be inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame
Founding father of World ParaVolley will be the first ever inductee from the world of sitting volleyball