PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
![Costa Rica - Blind Football](/sites/default/files/images/171114134652590_Costa%2BRica%2Bchampions.jpg)
Costa Rica win Blind Football Central American Championships
Regional champions qualify for 2018 World Champs in Madrid, Spain
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World’s best snowboarders set for Landgraaf
Vos and Bunschoten to star on home snow
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Rome 2017: Five things we learned
The key stories from the Wheelchair Fencing World Championships
![Japan’s Gurimu Narita competes at the 2017 World Para Snowboard Championships in Big White, Canada.](/sites/default/files/images/170213094457673_Gurimu-Narita.jpg)
Narita shows speed at Europa Cup
The Japanese snowboarder wins race and shows he can shake things up at the World Cup
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Duane Kale enters Attitude Hall of Fame
IPC Vice President named in New Zealand broadcaster’s 2017 class
![A general view of a street scene near the PyeongChang Mountain Cluster, host of the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games.](/sites/default/files/images/170301080950183_PyeongChang%2B2018.jpg)
UN General Assembly approves Olympic Truce for PyeongChang 2018
Truce will cover both Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games next year
![Ukraine's women celebrate the defence of their sabre team world title in Rome, Italy.](/sites/default/files/images/171113083204591_Ukraine.jpg)
Rome 2017: Ukraine’s women seal team gold
Top seeds saw off Italy to take sabre world title on final day of Wheelchair Fencing World Championships
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NPC Croatia wins top prize for social inclusion project
‘Wholehearted coaches’ scheme recognised as best in Europe by Allianz
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Top 50 Moments of 2017: No. 49 - Australia's women make goalball history
Team wins country’s first gold medal at World Youth Championships
![a female wheelchair racer crosses the finish line](/sites/default/files/images/171009090709912_Tatyana%2Bwins%2BChicago%2Bcropped.jpg)
Tatyana McFadden named Americas ‘Athlete of the Month’
US wheelchair racer wins an astonishing seventh consecutive Chicago Marathon