PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Two sledge hockey players in blue jerseys on the ice

A friendly between South Korea, Japan and the Czech Republic will get underway on Monday (8 February).

Sprinting woman

The South African sprinter stars in a new monthly series looking at the relationship and bond between athlete and coach.

Three adaptive snowboarders celebrate their podium finishes at the 2016 IPC Snowboard World Cup in Aspen, USA

Dutch riders Bibian Mentel-Spee, Chris Vos and Austria’s Patrick Mayrhofer also take the first snowboard-cross wins of the season in the USA.

Georg Kreiter of Germany competes in Men's Downhill Sitting at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games

The German world champion was helped on the way to world titles by multiple world and Paralympic champion Martin Braxenthaler.

Two men, one blindfolded, laughing

The T11 world champion tells us about his life away from athletics and his love of music.

a female from Australia competing in a wheelchair with green and yellow clothes and a white helmet

The Australian double world champion in the T53 class was victorious over 100m, 400m and 1,500m at the first day of the IPC Athletics Grand Prix.

Two men practising judo

Top-ranked judoka look to get competition in ahead of the Rio 2016 Games.

A picture of a girl holding a gun

Izumi Takehi and Toshio Moriwaki believe that by the time of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, awareness of shooting para-sport in Japan will have reached new levels.

Ivan Frantsev

Due to bad weather downhill races took place on Friday along with super-G, which replaced the super-combined originally scheduled.

Florian Planker

As one of the leading players on his national ice sledge hockey team, Planker wants to continue to help lead the team.