PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Archery - Fact of the week

Find out more about the sport that paved the way for the Paralympic Games.

Emanuel Goncalves

The S10 swimmer is hoping to qualify for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in front of his home crowds.

Melissa Tapper

Daniela Di Toro and Melissa Tapper headline Australis’s five-strong table tennis team for September’s Paralympics.

Two blindfolded football players fight for the ball

IBSA has confirmed that Germany’s capital city will held the Euros, from 17-27 August 2017.

A shot of the upper half of two women holding two Paralympic gold medals

Ramona and Carmen are hoping to excel hand in hand once again, at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Argentina’s Daniela Gimenez and Spain’s Sarai Gascon

Argentina’s Daniela Gimenez and Spain’s Sarai Gascon Moreno have a special friendship outside the pool as well as an ongoing rivalry in it.

Aerial view of a big stadium in a city

The competition will take place in one of Rio’s iconic, cultural venues.

Two women in wheelchairs look at each other smiling on a grass tennis court.

With the addition of the first singles events at the Grand Slam, wheelchair tennis prize money totals GBP 200,000.

Natasha Baker

Baker won all three events on the same horse she won double gold on from London 2012.

Two women smiling at each other in a swimmig pool after a race

Ellie Simmonds and Bethany Firth showed their intent for Rio 2016 by setting new world marks.