PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
![Dutch player Sam Schroder casts a shadow as he serves in the Australian Open final against Australia's Dylan Alcott.](/sites/default/files/2022-05/Sam%20Schroder%20Netherlands%20tennis%20australia%20open.jpg)
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/2022-05/Gustavo%20Fernandez%20Australian%20Open%202022%20tennis.jpg)
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/2022-05/Marcin%20Polak%20and%20pilot%20Michal%20Ladosz%20Tokyo%202020%20poland%20track%20cycling.jpg)
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/2022-05/Salto%20femenio%205.jpg)
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/2022-05/ParAthletics%20Lackner-9269.jpg)
Catherine Debrunner delights home fans with four world records at Nottwil 2022
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/2022-05/1805828.jpg)
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/2022-05/Beth%20Munro%20taekwondo%20manchester%202022%20european%20championships.jpg)
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/2023-08/mancina%20skate%20usa2.jpg)
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/images/180714104945339_sitting-volleyball-world-championships-netherlands.jpg)
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
![Athletes from Team USA take part in the parade of athletes during the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.](/sites/default/files/2022-05/USA%20athletes%20opening%20ceremony%20Tokyo%202020.jpg)
Hershey joins as partner of LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games
The Hershey Company has become the first domestic food partner of the LA 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games and also renewed its partnership with Team USA