PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

A general view of the Arena Carioca 1 at the Olympic Park.

Defending Paralympic champion Australia will play Great Britain in the tournament’s opening match.

Inbal Pezaro of Israel competing in the Women's 200m Freestyle S5 at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow.

30 athletes will compete for Israel and Lithuania will send 13 to September’s Paralympic Games.

Spain Football 5-a-Side team

Madrid, Spain, has been selected as host city for the blind football World Championships, in 2018.

The Paralympian 02/2016 - cover

Following on the last edition, the IPC’s magazine profiles several of the athletes competing for gold at Rio 2016.

Two women running on a blue track

The British T38 world champion and world record holder reveals her musical taste.

Football 7-a-side - Iran in action

Thirteen teams will compete for qualification slots for the 2017 World Championships.

Alex Zanardi

Alex Zanardi and Beatrice Vio are among the favourites for Italy, while Siamand Rahman and Zahra Nemati will look to bring gold home for Iran.

Martin Schulz of Germany emerges from the water in the swim portion of the men's PT4 class during the Aquece Rio Paratriathlon at Copacabana beach.

After surrendering his title in 2015, the German Para triathlete had a dominant finish in this year’s World Championships.

Paralympic Sports A-Z: Rowing

The sport will make its third Paralympic appearance in September.

Man in a wheelchair doing curling

After moving up from the B-Pool, Norway found themselves battling for World gold and hopefully Paralympic gold in two years’ time.