PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Upper body of man throwing a red ball

Rio 2016 champions and home favourites the ones to watch

The official logos of VISA and the IPC

Visa is IPC’s longest serving commercial partner having first got involved in 2003

Algerian goalball teams

Men’s and women’s teams retain titles at African Championships

Para dance sport athletes perform on the dancefloor

The biggest World Para Dance Sport Championships to date had plenty of talking points

a man lies on the road celebrating after crossing the finish line

Netherlands Paralympic champion wins his fourth world title of 2017 at Ironman World Championships

two para swimmers standing

Lignano Sabbiadoro in Italy added to schedule as number of host cities increase to six

Two women posing, one of them in an electric wheelchair

Erina Chiba and Yuki Goto are first members of Japanese Paralympic broadcaster team

a male alpine skier and a female snowboarder

Alpine skier Mitchell Gourley and snowboarder Joany Badenhorst to lead team at Winter Paralympics

two men smile at the camera

German city is home to Paralympic Movement’s headquarters

a man and a woman smile at the camera

Israeli athletes share their experiences at Asian Pacific Congress in Tel Aviv