PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

A picture of a chinese woman showing her gold medal

Ni Ma wins second gold medal of the Championships.

Alan Fonteles Oliveira winning the 200m T43 in Lyon

Brazilian sprint king is aiming for third world title in Lyon.

Adam Hall

New Zealand’s Paralympic champion and Team GB’s Heather Mills among stars set to shine at Audi quattro Winter Games NZ 2013.

Women's T43/T44 World records infographic as of 18 July 2013

April Holmes, Marie-Amelie Le Fur, Marlou van Rhijn, Marcel Hug, and Alan Fonteles Oliveira are all in action at IPC Athletics World Championships.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Rwanda, Senegal and the Central African Republic all set for low-cost racing chairs

Michelle Stilwell

South Africa's Ilse Hayes won the long jump F13 and Canada's Michelle Stilwell claimed gold in the 800m T52 race at the IPC Athletics World Championships.

Czech Republic ice sledge hockey team

Ahead of the Sochi 2014 Test Event, the Czech Republic’s ice sledge hockey team realise the next Paralympics could be their last together as a core group.

Mandy Francois-Elie sprinting on a tartan track leading the field.

French favourites Mandy Francois-Elie and Marie-Amelie le Fur, as well as Belgium’s Marieke Vervoort and Canada’s Michelle Stilwell will be in action.

Odair Santos

Read what the athletes had to say after they came off the track and field

Darragh McDonald at London 2012

Six athletes, all from London 2012, return to international competition at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Champs.