PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

A group of four players in wheelchairs - two per side - fight for the ball during a wheelchair rugby match.

With a special trophy given, a new online vote will allow fans to decide on who they feel was the best player at the 2014 IWRF World Championships

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Great Britain’s Claire Cashmore and Russia’s Oleysa Vladykina both won women’s breaststroke gold, touching in at the same time to both take gold as three world records were also broken at the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships.

Dressed in green and seated in a wheelchair, a player looks on as another lies face down with his wheel broken from his chair.

The big four of USA, Australia, Canada and Japan all got thier world title bids off to a good start on Tuesday in Odense, Denmark.

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U.S swimmer broke near 13-year-old world record on the first day of the 2014 Pan Pacific Para-Swimming Championships, as four other world records fall.

Ricardo Costa de Oliveira of Brasil

Paralympics Ireland has announced an eight strong team for the IPC Athletics European Championships which are set to take place in Swansea, Great Britain, from 18-23 August.

British swimmer Stephanie Slater comes up for a breath of air.

Brit smashes world record by more than a second on Wednesday morning as home favourite Zijderveld wins gold with a European record.

Toronto 2015 emblem

Meet the athletes in the "Are you Ready?" trailer

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Norway’s Sarah Louise Rung, Great Britain’s Eleanor Simmonds and the hosts’ very own Marc Evers and Marlou van der Kulk will all be in action on day three (6 August) at the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships.

A picture of three men underwater

Nederlanders grijpen naast eremetaal.

Ihar Boki

At his first outing in Eindhoven, Belarusian Ihar Boki stormed to gold in 50m freestyle S3 – an event he has struggled with in the past.