PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Anna Schaffelhuber

Germany’s five-time Paralympic champion is building towards the 2017 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships

Shingo Kunieda

The UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour started with 11 tournaments in 1992 and consists now of more than 150 annually over 40 countries.

Ihar Boki competes at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain.

Ten wheelchair fencers and 32 swimmers have been named as athletes to look out for in 2017.

The Alpensia Resort is seen from above on February 10, 2015 in the mountain cluster of Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Interested non rights holding broadcasters can apply online via https://www.paralympic.org/pyeongchang-2018/media

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