PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Matt Stutzman

Event helps athletes prepare for World Archery Para Championships

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Seven new world records for Australia and three for the USA’s Jessica Long also highlight the weekend’s action at the Internationale Deutsche Meisterschaft in Berlin, Germany.

Female runners with guides on a track running

On the final day of the IPC Athletics Grand Prix, a quartet of Chinese athletes took 0.3 seconds off the 4x100m T11-13 world record.

Man on hockey sledge focusing on the puk

As the team prepare for Buffalo 2015, Paralympic.org asked head coach Jiri Briza and defenceman David Motycka about their aspirations for PyeongChang 2018.

A shooter takes aim

Only in his second competitive season, Uzbekistan’s Server Ibragimov storms onto the international stage with victory at the IPC Shooting World Cup in Szczecin, Poland.

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The records included Cuiqing Liu taking 0.15 seconds off the 10-year-old 200m T11 Asian record.

Shooters take aim during rifle competitions at the 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships

Australia’s Natalie Smith saw off Slovakian world and European champion Veronika Vadovicova, and two finals world records were broken at the IPC Shooting World Cup in Szczecin, Poland.

Brazilian Paralympian Terezinha Guilhermina runs with Usain Bolt of Jamaica as her guide during an exhibition in preparation for the Mano a Mano Athletics Challenge at the Jockey Club Brasileiro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Six-time Olympic champion from Jamaica trains with Brazil’s three-time Paralympic champion ahead of 'Mano a Mano' event.

The Paralympic and world 200m T46 champion Yohansson Nascimento gives an insight into his three heroes.

He will be competing in the IPC Athletics Grand Prix this week in Sao Paulo, Brazil, but today he tells us which people are his heroes.

Kazuhiro Takahashi

After creating a huge upset on the international stage by beating Canada to progress to the final at Vancouver 2010, Japan are in Buffalo at the start of their road to PyeongChang 2018.