PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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Swift International to provide boats for US para-rowers for Worlds
Four US crews will receive boats ahead of the 2015 World Rowing Championships in France.
![Great Britain’s young track star Maria Lyle, gives an insight into her three heroes.](/sites/default/files/images/150811103012954_16%2BAug%2B2015.jpg)
#SuperheroSunday: Great Britain’s Maria Lyle
The British teenager has been a sensation since making her international debut last year and reveals her three heroes.
![APC President Jose Luis Campo speaking at the 2015 PASO General Assembly](/sites/default/files/images/150115112205162_APC%2BPresident%2BJose%2BLuis%2BCampo.jpg)
APC President praises "best ever Parapan American Games"
Check out the full Toronto 2015 Closing Ceremony speech from Jose Luis Campo, the Americas Paralympic Committtee President.
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Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games come to a close
During eight days of sport 10 world, 70 Americas and 239 Games records were broken.
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Toronto 2015: Day seven as it happened
Many of the team sports reached a climax on Friday at the Parapan American Games whilst it was also the final day for many individual sports.
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Hat-trick of titles and world record for Durand at Toronto 2015
The Cuban T12 sprinter won her third gold by breaking the 200m world record she had set just 24 hours earlier.
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Brazil retain football 5-a-side Parapan Am crown
The 2016 Paralympic Games hosts beat Argentina 2-1 to be crowned Parapan Am champions for third time at Toronto 2015.
![Canada's Zak Madell in the Toronto 2015 wheelchair rugby gold medal match against USA.](/sites/default/files/images/150815164131256_tor15_WR_ZakMadell_DG_0703.jpg)
Canada win TO2015 wheelchair rugby gold in a thriller
The world number two side defeated rivals USA whilst Colombia secured bronze on a sensational final day.
![Brazilian sprinter Terezinha Guilhermina carrying the Brazilian flag during the Toronto 2015 Opening Ceremony](/sites/default/files/images/150815210532631_Brazil%2Bflag.jpg)
Toronto 2015 Closing Ceremony flagbearers
The 28 flagbearers for the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games Closing Ceremony have been named.
![Tess Routliffe swimming in the pool. Her head is just above water and facing the camera.](/sites/default/files/images/150812182837182_Tor15_SW_Tess%2BRoutliffe__w_400m%2Bfreestyle_h_9aug_SG35502_0.jpg)
Records continue to fall in Parapan pool
Brazil’s Talisson Glock and Joana Da Silva, and Canada’s Tess Routliffe took gold and Americas records on Friday morning’s swimming at Toronto 2015.