PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Team USA ice sledge hockey players

Teams from Canada, the USA and Europe will compete in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, from 7-9 November.

Rune Lorentsen

Following their victory at the World Wheelchair Curling Qualification event in Lillehammer, Norway, both nations have booked their slot at the 2015 World Wheelchair Curling Championships.

Allianz fact of the week para-triathlon

The sport is governed by the International Triathlon Union (ITU), which has supported the development of para-triathlon for more than 15 years and has held para-triathlon World Championships every year since 1995.

A picture of a girl in a wheelchair playing tennis

Top seeds Japan’s Yui Kamiji and Great Britain’s Jordanne Whiley tasted defeat, whilst the USA’s Nick Taylor and David Wagner booked their place in the final.

UK team in the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Tokyo 1964

Saturday 8 November will mark 50 years since the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Games.

Marlou van Rhijn and her sister Suzanne enjoy the views from Rio's Sugar Loaf mountain.

The world’s fastest female blade runner is counting down the days until the next Paralympic Games in less than two years’ time.

A picture foa a blonde woman showing her gold medal hanging around her neck

As part of the “Redefine Limitations” campaign by manufacturers FINIS, Weggemann will have glimpses of her daily life documented as she prepares for the upcoming Paralympic Games.

People sitting around a table, writing on a big sheet of paper

The Agitos Foundation’s Organisational Capacity Programme has helped the National Paralympic Committee to strengthen its development of para-sport.

Two young women wearing ski clothes and a silver medal holding hands and waving

Britain’s most successful winter Paralympian Jade Etherington and her guide Caroline Powell have announced that they will pursue new careers.

Athlete practicing alpine skiing in a sit-ski.

Skiers will head to France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain and the USA, for World and Europa Cups beginning on 15 December 2015.