PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Football team lines up for team photo

The defending champions beat Ukraine 1-0 in the final of the CP Football 7-a-side World Championships.

Ukraine's Vasyl Kovalchuk took gold ahead of Finnish world champion Minna Leinonen at a 2015 IPC Shooting World Cup.

A number of great athletes are preparing themselves for three qualification World Cups, the first of which takes place in Osijek, Croatia, from 10 July.

Russia’s world, Paralympic and European long jump T38 champion Margarita Goncharova, gives an insight into her three heroes.

After breaking the long jump T38 world record last week in Berlin, Germany, the T38 athlete shares with us her three heroes.

Two athletes doing taekwondo

Behind the support of the National Paralympic Committee of Korea, the class will help develop athletes and the sport.

Dmytro Solovey of Ukraine and Sharif Khalilov of Uzbekistan compete in the Men's 73kg Gold Medal Contest at the London 2012 Paralympic Games

The new rankings take into account performances at May’s IBSA World Games in Seoul, Korea.

Bags with logos on a table

The Agitos Foundation is working with Rio 2016 and the Brazilian Paralympic Committee to ensure a meaningful legacy for para-sport in the Americas.

The National Paralympic Day, held on 27 May at the University of Botswana, saw 400 athletes compete with 58 officials overseeing the competitions, which included athletics, wheelchair basketball and netball.

National Paralympic Committee builds on momentum of Agitos Foundation’s Organisational Capacity Programme participation.

Football 7-a-side - Team Ukraine

The defending world champions Russia will go head-to-head with European title winner Ukraine in Sunday’s final of the Cerebral Palsy Football 7-a-side World Championships.

Chuck Aoki

The US wheelchair rugby player was recently referred to as an “Olympian.” He explains why that stuck out to him.

A picture of a man sit down on a basket

The Canadian wheelchair basketball ace was inducted into the Centre Wellington Sport Hall of Fame.