PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Great Britain's Jack Rutter - Football 7-a-side

Fourteen footballers, including two returning from London 2012, will compete in September’s Games.

Chad Perris runs in the IPC Athletics Grand Prix Ambulant 100m heats during the Queensland Track Classic.

Australia’s athletics two-time world medallist says he wants to use his time at Rio 2016 to help bring awareness and equality to people with albinism.

Man being filmed by a smartphone

Straight from the mixed zone, here is what the athletes had to say at the IPC Athletics European Championships at the end of their event.

Man during a high jump

Straight from the mixed zone, here is what the athletes had to say at the IPC Athletics European Championships at the end of their event.

Podium with 3 women holding flowers

Poland’s Arleta Meloch smashed the 800m T20 world record on the second morning (Sunday 12 June) of the 2016 IPC Athletics European Championships, taking the world record tally in Grosseto, Italy, to five so far.

women on the track, running

Russia and Great Britain led the medal charge on day two of the IPC Athletics European Championships in Grosseto, Italy, as Margarita Goncharova smashed the 200m T38 world record – one of three world marks to fall on Sunday afternoon (12 June).

David Weir of Great Britain

World and Paralympic champions will be in action on day 2 of the 2016 IPC Athletics European Championships.

Two men in wheelchairs, one throwing a blue ball

The competition in Povoa will bring some of the best international players together, helping them prepare for the Paralympic Games.

Wheelchair rugby coach in wheelchair yells instructions

The former US wheelchair rugby coach has put Team Canada in good position for their first Paralympic gold.

Upper body of women showing a medal to the camera

From claiming World Championships silver to losing friends, the Hungarian shooter describes her career so far.