PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
![Carla Qualtrough was appointed Canada's Minister for Sport and Persons with Disabilities in November 2015.](/sites/default/files/images/151104180811549_Carla.jpg)
Canadian Paralympic Hall of Famers named
Carla Qualtrough and Karolina Wisniewska are among the five to be inducted into the class of 2017
![Follmann played sitting volleyball with Leite and watched the swimming and athletics national teams practice in the Brazilian Paralympic Centre.](/sites/default/files/images/170223095906872_Follmann.jpg)
Chapecoense goalkeeper visits Brazilian Paralympic Centre
Jakson Follmann was one of only six survivors of the tragic plane crash that killed 71 people, and tried Para sport for the first time.
![Italy v Germany at the Buffalo 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships A-Pool](/sites/default/files/images/150427010842272_web%2B20150426_ITA%2Bv%2BDEU_0633_0.jpg)
Five things to know about the Torino international
Para ice hockey players from Canada, Italy, Norway and South Korea will all take to the ice in a round-robin tournament from 27 February.
![Cristina Hoffman](/sites/default/files/images/170223102055869_Hoffman%2BCristina.jpg)
Throwback Thursday: Mexico’s Cristina Hoffman
The table tennis player, who won silver at Atlanta 1996, received the ‘National Sports Award’ from Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto in recognition of her career.
![Two men on a stage, one handing a medal to the other](/sites/default/files/images/170222152119087_President-Nikolic-NPC-President-Micovic.jpg)
NPC Serbia receives highest medal
The country’s President delivered the medal to recently re-elected NPC President Zoran Micovic.
![Group of female sledge hockey players pose for a photo](/sites/default/files/images/170222152437669_Eline-van-der-Gaag_0.jpg)
Tributes pour in for Eline van der Gaag
The European women’s Para ice hockey team and wider community mourn the loss of the Dutch goaltender.
![Shooting range with athletes in action](/sites/default/files/images/170222153309693_Shooting-World-Cup-Al-Ain.jpg)
Vadovicova, Denysiuk open season with wins
Athletes showed their form in the rifle and pistol events in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
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London schools apply for 90,000 World Para Athletics Championships tickets
More than 1,000 London schools have requested tickets for pupils following the Schools Tickets offer, backed by the Mayor of London.
![The sponsorship project “The Missing Piece” won the ESA Best of Europe Bronze Award.](/sites/default/files/images/170222084227014_NPC%2BCroatia.jpg)
‘Be the Missing Piece’ collects ESA award
The sponsorship project continues to receive international recognition after picking up its seventh award.
![Ananias Shikongo and his guide Even Tjiviju of Namibia celebrates winning the gold medal in the Men's 200m - T11 Final at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.](/sites/default/files/images/170222091650615_Ananias%2BShikongo.jpg)
Workout Wednesday with Namibia’s Ananias Shikongo
The Paralympic sprinting champion talks us through a typical training day as he prepares for London 2017.