PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Finland wheelchair rugby player competing

The wheelchair rugby player has played three seasons in the US and hopes that experience can help Finland in the European Championships.

Sir Philip Craven was among the first passengers on the Rio 2016 Celebrate Literature train.

New look revealed for Rio's suburban trains, with images of Paralympic stars and phrases by Brazilian literary figures.

Nigeria's Yakubu Adesokan winning gold at London 2012

World champion hopes to put in ‘outrageous’ performance at the first Paralympic ranking event to take place in the African region.

Andrew Parsons, President of the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CBP) and International Paralympic Committee Vice President.

The IPC Vice President says seeing high-performance athletes up close will have ‘extraordinary educational effect.’

Sandra Paovic of Croatia

The table tennis class 6 world champion is preparing to add Paralympic champion to her resume.

Portrait picture of a women in Team USA uniform in front of a landscape

With under a year until the Rio 2016 Paralympics, athletes will be busy travelling, and maintaining a healthy nutrition becomes more challenging.

A picture of a Wheelchair Fencer celebrating her victory

In her fifth Games, the Hungarian wheelchair fencer hopes to finally win that elusive gold medal.

A picture of a man running

Australia will field their biggest athletics Worlds roster for October’s event, led by five-time Paralympic champion Evan O’Hanlon.

Man in wheelchair talking, people listening to him, applauding

Sir Philip Craven was joined by IPC Vice President and President of the Brazilian Paralympic Committee Andrew Parsons at the centre in Sao Paulo.

Woman in running clothes

Heinrich Popow, Vanessa Low among the standouts on Germany’s roster for the IPC Athletics World Championships.