PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Arly Velasquez

Alpine skier Arly Velasquez will be one of the athlete leaders at the relaunch of Proud Paralympian at Rio 2016.

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Para cyclist Michael Gallagher has been sent home after an out-of-competition drug test in July.

Women’s 400m freestyle S6

Ukraine’s Yelyzaveta Mereshko and Great Britain’s Eleanor Simmonds will fight in the race for the title.

Two judo athletes fighting on a tatami or judo mat.

Mouloud Noura is among those to watch at the Paralympics Games.

Logo of the Agitos Foundation

The organisation has already played a major part in the development of Para sports and will now support education programmes for the next five years.

Woman on horse

Get to know the Australian grade II rider ahead of Rio 2016.

Pavlos Mamalos

Aiming for a first Paralympic medal Mamalos shares his training schedule and nutrition.

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Athletes from Cuba, Canada, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands and China happy to move in and eager to start competing.

Aerial view on stadium

The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, the world’s biggest Para sport competition, will headline this month’s events.

Logo IPC Academy

The Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Worcester will speak during at the Campus’ Games Experience Programme session.