PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

A man in a handcycle waves to spectators from a dirt track.

Nine athletes won both the time trial and road race in Castiglione Della Pescaia, including Italian handcyclist Alex Zanardi.

An athlete hits a table tennis ball.

Find out who won the men’s and women’s singles events and the team events at the major international competition.

Raymond Martin celebrates

America's Raymond Martin and German Vanessa Low set provisional new marks at the fourth IPC Athletics Grand Prix of 2014.

Mandy Francois-Elie sprinting on a tartan track leading the field.

Application process is now open for Europe's biggest para-athletics event of the year.

Shirley Reilly

Paralympic champion Shirley Reilly has a new racing wheelchair for her 2014 Grand Prix debut in Arizona, aiming to prepare for the rematch between Switzerland’s Manuela Schaer in Europe later in the month.

A group shot of 11 smartly dressed people lined up in front of a painted sport wall mosaic looking directly at the camera

After three days of meetings, the IPC/APC delegation is confident that Toronto 2015 will be the best Parapan Games to date.

A picture of a man with a gold medal around his neck during a medal ceremony

The Paralympic and world champion is heading into the IPC Swimming European Championships as the S14 swimmer to beat.

Blake Leeper and Jarryd Wallace

Fourth IPC Athletics Grand Prix of 2014 will also feature Americans Raymond Martin and Shirley Reilly ahead of her clash with Manuela Schaer in Switzerland, and Canada’s multiple world champion Brent Lakatos.

A man in a wheelchair shoots a basketball layup.

Eight teams will compete in Dubai: Iraq, Oman, Jordan, UAE, Kuwait, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and Syria.

Group shot of women (standing and in wheelchairs) in front of a white wall.

The IPC’s development arm will look to increase women in leadership roles in the Paralympic Movement to 30 per cent through a new mentoring programme, with 22 Member organisations taking part