PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Russia's Alexey Bugaev won downhill in the men's standing at Panorama 2015.

Alexey Bugaev and Ivan Frantsev take world titles, as France’s Marie Bochet and Anna Schaffelhuber also seal wins at para-alpine Worlds.

Leomon Silva of Brazil scored 51 goals at the 2014 Goalball World Championships

May’s event is expected to attract around 3,000 athletes from 80 countries who will compete in 10 sports.

Six men celebrating on a volleyball field.

Thanks to support received from the Agitos Foundation, Rwanda expect to send an increased number of athletes to Rio 2016.

Women and man pose with a medal

Ahead of the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Brisbane, world renowned para-athletics coach Iryna Dvoskina gives an insight into how she gets the best out of her athletes.

A woman in a wheelchair hits a tennis ball as a backhand.

The world’s leading women’s wheelchair tennis player is aiming to stay top of the world in 2015.

Kimberly Joines

Official Legal Partner brings legal expertise and fundraising component to Paralympic Movement

Sweden's ice sledge hockey team

Six teams will compete at the 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships B-Pool which open on Sunday 15 March.

Mac and B.J. Marcoux

Canada’s Mac Marcoux took the title for the hosts as Austrian Claudia Loesch fulfilled her dream, taking her first downhill World's title.

Athlete practicing alpine skiing in a sit-ski.

France’s Marie Bochet and Germany’s Anna Schaffelhuber set the quickest times in the first downhill training run of Panorama 2015.

Sweden's ice sledge hockey team

Players for Poland, South Korea, Great Britain, Slovakia, Austria and hosts Sweden have been announced.