PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Para Nordic Skiing World Cup Western Center - Ukraine

France’s Para Nordic skier won the men’s Individual visually impaired race in Western Center, Ukraine, on 17 January.

A quarter of a million schoolchildren across Greater London given opportunity to attend the World Para Athletics Championships London 2017.

A quarter of a million schoolchildren across Greater London given opportunity to attend the World Para Athletics Championships London 2017.

View on slopes in the sunshine

A host of world champions and World Cup leaders will line up for slalom and giant slalom in Slovenia from 18-20 January, ahead of the Worlds.

Logo of the Agitos Foundation

The National Paralympic Committees of Haiti, Argentina, Cameroon and Ghana implemented successful media campaigns for Rio 2016.

swimmingpool

World Para Swimming is inviting potential classifiers to receive hands-on training in Copenhagen, Denmark, in March.

A man and a woman in a stadium, with spadens, working on an athletics track

Media can now apply for accreditation via www.paralympic.org/london-2017

Jiske Griffioen

The Apia International was the first ITF Super Series of the year, with all 2016 singles champions successfully defending their title.

Sao Paulo 2017 mascot

The fourth Youth Parapan American Games will take place in the Brazilian city from 20-25 March.

Lucas Mazur - Badminton - France

Six badminton players and 12 shooters have been named as athletes to look out for in 2017.

Skier and his guide on a slope

With under one week to go until his home alpine skiing World Championships, the teenager talks of his hopes.