PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Zahra Nemati

The Paralympic champions received the award by World Archery at a gala held in Las Vegas, USA, on 10 February.

Japan's Sho Watanabe crosses the line to take the 2017 Tokyo marathon ahead of Switzerland's Marcel Hug.

The Japanese racer finished ahead of Marcel Hug whilst the USA’s Amanda McGrory won the women’s race.

Man in wheelchair in a shooting range, targeting

Great Britain’s Ryan Cockbill also beat Ukraine’s Paralympic champion Vasyl Kovalchuk for gold to conclude competition in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.

Nandor Tunkel

Five different countries all won gold in Dubai on the first day of competition at the World Para Powerlifting World Cup.

Para powerlifting educational courses held in Dubai

Over 50 participants from 27 countries took part from 19-26 February, prior to the start of the eighth Fazza 2017 World Para Powerlifting World Cup.

Man sitting on bench, celebrating

The competition opens the 2017 season on 27 February and will be shown live at worldparapowerlifting.org.

Upper body of man playing table tennis

The newly crowned British table tennis Paralympic champion wants to stay No. 1 but is not pressuring himself about it.

Italian ice sledge hockey players thank their supporters after making it to the final of the international tournament in 2015

The Italian Para ice hockey team will play Norway, South Korea and Canada from Monday (27 February), in their last major event ahead of the Worlds.

South African sprinter and multiple world and Paralympic champion Ilse Hayes tells us her favourite holiday destination.

Find out where the visually impaired sprinter relaxed after the Rio 2016 Paralympics.

Woman with rifle waves at crowd

A low round for Germany’s Natascha Hiltrop allowed the Slovakian to take the late lead and eventual victory in R6 at the shooting World Cup.