PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
![Group photo of Korean wheelchair basketball team](/sites/default/files/2021-01/korea-wheelchair-basketball.jpg)
South Korean wheelchair basketball team pushes on for late coach
Sa-Hyun Han’s last major competition with the team ensured their qualification for Tokyo 2020
![Francisca Mardones looks to the sky while holding her gold medal](/sites/default/files/2019-11/Francisca-Mardones.jpg)
Francisca Mardones recalls greatest victory while she eyes Tokyo success
Chilean shot put thrower remembers her world title in 2019, obtained days after the death of her father
![Female fencer smiles holding gold medal](/sites/default/files/2019-09/bebe-vio%20%282%29.jpg)
IPC podcast: Bebe Vio on defiance
Paralympic wheelchair fencing champion is the final guest of the podcast's series
![A woman observing a sit-skier at the starting gate](/sites/default/files/2021-01/49420505137_a8cc5c82f0_h.jpg)
Norway’s Synne Stangeland breaking the glass ceiling for female coaches
Young coach earns respect of her athletes and guides them to the World Championships on home snow in Lillehammer
IPC and Infront sign ground-breaking media rights partnership
Ambitious four-year European media rights agreement to unlock full potential of Paralympic Games
![A group of people watching the stage of a Para powerlifting competition with a person competing surrounded by five people](/sites/default/files/2021-01/Manchester%202020.jpg)
World Para Powerlifting announce calendar for World Cup 2021
Five events to take place from March to June in the qualification pathway for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
![A woman in white skirt and blue jacket posing in front of the athletics stadium during the Beijing 2008 Paralympics](/sites/default/files/2021-01/Sue%20Beijing%202008%20%282%29.jpg)
World Para Athletics saddened by passing of Sue McKiernan
Former ITO was directly involved in the development of Para athletics throughout the 1990s and beginning of the 2000s
![Shunya Takahashi](/sites/default/files/2020-12/Shunya%20Takahashi.jpg)
Shunya Takahashi: Loosen up to maximise performance
A former baseball player, the Japanese athlete now has his sights on qualifying for Tokyo 2020 Games in another sport - javelin
![A male hand plugging a green Eleiko sensor on a barbell](/sites/default/files/2021-01/eleiko-sensor2.jpg)
World Para Powerlifting and Eleiko optimise training and competition experience
Para powerlifting becomes first strength sport to use new technology to improve performance analysis via barbell sensors
![Two women and a man with impairments pose for a photo with awards](/sites/default/files/2021-01/Kinga-Dr%C3%B3%C5%BCd%C5%BC7-paulina-malinowska.jpg)
Celebrating female role models has powerful impact, says Malinowska-Kowalczyk
Winner of IPC 2020 International Women’s Day Recognition – Builder Category hopes she can inspire more nominations for 2021 edition