PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Man on hockey sledge focusing on the puk

As the team prepare for Buffalo 2015, Paralympic.org asked head coach Jiri Briza and defenceman David Motycka about their aspirations for PyeongChang 2018.

A shooter takes aim

Only in his second competitive season, Uzbekistan’s Server Ibragimov storms onto the international stage with victory at the IPC Shooting World Cup in Szczecin, Poland.

Blindfolded women with guide running in a relay

The records included Cuiqing Liu taking 0.15 seconds off the 10-year-old 200m T11 Asian record.

Shooters take aim during rifle competitions at the 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships

Australia’s Natalie Smith saw off Slovakian world and European champion Veronika Vadovicova, and two finals world records were broken at the IPC Shooting World Cup in Szczecin, Poland.

Brazilian Paralympian Terezinha Guilhermina runs with Usain Bolt of Jamaica as her guide during an exhibition in preparation for the Mano a Mano Athletics Challenge at the Jockey Club Brasileiro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Six-time Olympic champion from Jamaica trains with Brazil’s three-time Paralympic champion ahead of 'Mano a Mano' event.

The Paralympic and world 200m T46 champion Yohansson Nascimento gives an insight into his three heroes.

He will be competing in the IPC Athletics Grand Prix this week in Sao Paulo, Brazil, but today he tells us which people are his heroes.

Kazuhiro Takahashi

After creating a huge upset on the international stage by beating Canada to progress to the final at Vancouver 2010, Japan are in Buffalo at the start of their road to PyeongChang 2018.

A picture of a woman in the pool with her head and shoulders above the surface

Team of eight includes Sophie Pascoe who has been in incredible form this week, taking down two world records at the Swimming NZ Open Championships.

Dame Tessa Jowell

The former Olympics Minister will deliver the World Athletics Inspiration Programme covering both the IAAF and IPC Athletics World Championships.

A picture of a man holding the starting block with his hands

Seventeen swimmers, including five new athletes, will compete for the Netherlands at July’s 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain.