PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Matti Suur-Hamari

Students and teachers will have the chance to meet several Sochi 2014 Paralympians during the month of May.

Three sailors are pictured receiving their medals on a podium.

Find out which athletes made the podium in one of the major tune-up events ahead of the IFDS Sailing World Championships.

Men's wheelchair racers cross Tower Bridge in the 2014 Virgin Money London Marathon

Americas Cup events to held in conjunction with Rio half marathon and Sao Paulo marathon for the next four years

A para-equestrian rider is pictured galloping on his horse.

The country hopes to take after Singapore’s rise in the sport and field a Paralympic team by Rio 2016 or Tokyo 2020.

Agitos at  Laura Cross-Country Ski and Biathlon Centre

Rob Walsh, the Chairperson of the IPC Nordic Skiing Sport Technical Committee has hailed the Games as a huge success and highlighted an area that can make the PyeongChang 2018 Games even better.

Germany's Sabine Ellerbrock sits in her wheelchair and hits a tennis ball.

All top three seeds won their respective classes at the wheelchair tennis Airports Company South Africa Gauteng Open.

Lucas Prado

The third IPC Athletics Grand Prix of 2014 sees a renewal of a Brazilian rivalry and a promising performance for teenager Petrucio dos Santos.

34 people sit and stand in front on a wall for a group picture

An Agitos Foundation supported project, a first of its kind in the country, trains powerlifting referees and classifiers with the aim of holding national championships in the future.

Athlete swimming.

In total, 22 world records were broken at the 28th Internationale Deutsche Meisterschaft swimming competition.

Two judokas in competition

Athletes from 10 different countries had the chance to travel to the next Paralympic Games host city.