PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Paralympian 10/3/2013

Explore sport-specific classification, preview the IPC Alpine Skiing and Snowboard World Cups and look back at summer championships in the new edition of The Paralympian.

Japan plays Great Britain - London 2012

Find out which 12 teams will compete at the 2014 IWRF Wheelchair Rugby World Championships next August in Odense, Denmark.

Shingo Kunieda

NEC Corporation will continue to support major international wheelchair tennis tournaments in 2014.

Upper body of man playing table tennis

From winning double gold at the European Championships to topping the world rankings, Great Britain’s Rob Davies explains the best year of his life.

Bijlard Guus

Six month after entering the one-person keelboat, the Netherlands’ Guus Bijlard won his first world title.

Annika Zeyen of Germany during the Women's Wheelchair Basketball Gold Medal Match between Australia and Germany at the London 2012 Paralympics

For the first time in 2014, there will be separate men’s and women’s wheelchair basketball World Championship events.

USA and South Korea's ice sledge hockey teams

The USA beat South Korea and Canada recorded a victory over Russia on the second day of the World Sledge Hockey Challenge.

Wheelchair basketball

Both Australia’s men’s and women’s teams won the IWBF Asia-Oceania Zone Championships, qualifying themselves for the World Championships.

Sir Philip Craven at General Assembly 2013

Find out what the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is doing to increase the number of female leaders in the Paralympic Movement.

Athlete holding a rifle while practicing shooting.

Germany’s Natascha Hiltrop wins her first major title, and judge Robynne Browne raises the Paralympic flag at 2013 IPC Shooting European Championships.