PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Pavlos Mamalos

Greece’s Pavlos Mamalos has built quite a following heading into next week’s IPC Powerlifting Open European Championships in Aleksin, Russia.

Blake Leeper and Jarryd Wallace

Big American names set to compete in Arizona this weekend.

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American wheelchair rugby player Chuck Aoki wants to know what you think about able-bodied people involved in the Paralympic Movement.

Fiona Southorn

A 10-strong team will represent New Zealand at this year’s Para-cycling Road World Cup and Road World Championships.

Mariska Beijer

The Netherlands and Germany have met in the final of every women’s wheelchair basketball European Championships since 1989.

Marlou van Rhijn

Following Alan Fonteles Oliveira’s inclusion in SportsPro’s 50 Most Marketable Athletes, here are 15 other Paralympians who IPC Editorial Co-ordinator Stuart Lieberman believes have the potential to make such a list in the future.

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London 2012 medallist Michael Johnson to lead team of five.

Marlou van Rhijn

The Netherlands’ Marlou van Rhijn now holds world records in the 100m, 200m and 400m distances in the T43 class.

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Paralympian wins after putting on a show at Spring CanAms.

Vladimir Balynetc

With 31 of the 137 athletes, Russia will have the largest delegation at next week’s 2013 IPC Powerlifting Open European Championships.