PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

UNESCO Chief of Youth and Sport Section Alexander Schischlik meets with NPC Iran officials

Alexander Schischlik highlights importance of giving all people access to sports

Upper body of man throwing a red ball

David Smith, Jamie McCowan and Stephen McGuire among favourites

Three athletes running on an athletics track

Local and international athletes have broken world records at the event

Logo of the Benin Paralympic Committee.

Paralympic Movement mourns the loss of Ferdinand Adechi

Wheelchair Rugby Denmark

The draws for August’s IWRF World Championships will be held on 27 April

two female Para taekwondo fighters kick at each other

Learn how Para taekwondo athletes can qualify for their sport’s Paralympic debut

Man in a wheelchair point at a smiley woman in wheelchair

Australian takes her first victory in the marathon and Weir clinches eight title

The Chinese wheelchair curling team won the country´s first Winter Paralympic gold in PyeongChang

They defeat Norway in the final to claim China’s first Winter Paralympic title

The groups for the Madrid 2018 World Championships were drawn in the Spaniard capital city on 23 April

‘Group of Death’ made up of Argentina, France, Colombia and Iran

Portrait of man in wheelchair

Experience keeps British shooter focused at World Champs in South Korea