PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Italian woman celebrates on a horse

2014, the Chinese Year of the Horse, was a great year for para-equestrian dressage, both in and out of the arena.

Ellie Cole, Natalie Du Toit

Australian multiple Paralympic champion Ellie Cole is on a come-back from injury and aims to be back on form for Glasgow 2015.

Man doing powerlifting on a bench

To end 2014, we focus on seven huge lifts that had us all talking during the season.

Veronika Vadovicova 2014

After a packed season which featured a World Championships, Asian Para Games and World Cups, find out who is topping the rankings and why.

Two skiers behind each other on the slope

Markus Walser, Chairperson of the IPC Alpine Skiing Sport Technical Committee, conducted a site visit for the alpine skiing World Championships.

Matti Suur-Hamari

Finnish lower-limb impaired rider Suur-Hamari offers his training advice to aspiring snowboarders.

No. 6 Australia crowned wheelchair rugby champions for the first time

After gold at London 2012, the Australian wheelchair rugby team are now world champions after success in Denmark.

Fact of the week - Para-snowboard

In 2012 it was announced that para-snowboard would be included in the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.

No. 7 Ukraine compete at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games

Despite huge political tensions, Ukraine stayed to compete in what they described as “the most tragic Paralympic Games in the history of Paralympic sport in Ukraine”.

Beatrice Vio

There were few surprises as the year’s in-form athletes took titles at the final event of the year – the IWAS Wheelchair Fencing Grand Prix in Hong Kong.