PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Canada players celebrate after the ice sledge hockey bronze medal game between Canada and Norway at the Shayba Arena at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.

Seventeen players will form the squad looking to retain their title at the 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships which get underway on Sunday (26 April).

A visually impaired athlete runs with her guide on the track of a stadium.

Around 340 athletes from 20 countries will be lining up in the fifth Grand Prix of 2015.

US players in their sledges on the ice after winning against Russia.

The USA enter the Worlds as the first team to secure back-to-back Paralympic titles and have secured recent wins over reigning champions Canada and Russia.

crowds during the National Paralympic Day at the Olympic Park

Fans have chance to cheer on British athletes in athletics and swimming on 26 July in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Team Slovenia Sitting Volleyball Women

Event serves as qualifier for Rio 2016

Aerial view on coast with contruction works going on

The IPC Academy, the IPC’s education division, will also take over operation of Paralympic Games Knowledge Management

Three players and two men in training suits on a podium

Josh Sweeney, Steve Cash and Adam Page receive a hero’s welcome at a press conference at the HARBORCENTER, the venue for the 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships.

Lucas Sithole

The South African earns his first super series quad singles win in front of his home crowd

Sophie Wells

British trio helps edge Dutch in tune-up for European Championships.

Aleksander Wang Hansen

Hyeres is the third installment of the 2014-2015 World Cup series