PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
![Beth Munro shouts in celebration after winning her bout at the Manchester 2022 European Championships.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2022-05/Beth%20Munro%20taekwondo%20manchester%202022%20european%20championships.jpg?h=c73431e7&itok=UElPK63_)
European Championships mark new era in Para taekwondo
New fighters emerge as Paris 2024 medal threats as Para taekwondoins compete alongside able-bodied teammates
![Two photos of blind skateboarder Dan Mancina doing tricks. In the first one he is jumping on a rail and in the second he is jumping over a person while holding a white cane.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2023-08/mancina%20skate%20usa2.jpg?itok=F36aYHvY)
Blind skateboarder Mancina on mission to build world's first adaptive skatepark
Detroit-based rider returned to skateboarding after losing all of his vision and now wants to help others with vision impairments pick up the sport
![Glass-looking trophies for sitting volleyball World Championships medallists](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/images/180714104945339_sitting-volleyball-world-championships-netherlands.jpg?itok=vUbeCgga)
Pieter Joon to be inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame
Founding father of World ParaVolley will be the first ever inductee from the world of sitting volleyball
![Athletes from Team USA take part in the parade of athletes during the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2022-05/USA%20athletes%20opening%20ceremony%20Tokyo%202020.jpg?h=d25df2f4&itok=NVmYJbyf)
Hershey joins as partner of LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games
The Hershey Company has become the first domestic food partner of the LA 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games and also renewed its partnership with Team USA
![Image of a female Para Athletics athletes happy after she crosses the finish](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2022-05/GettyImages-1337797516.jpg?itok=XSoFq7i6)
Debrunner welcomes new career challenges in Nottwil
Switzerland hosts third Grand Prix of the season with plenty of Paralympic medallists in action from Thursday to Saturday
![Gustavo Sanchez It Starts With Sport](/sites/default/files/styles/video_crop_16_9/public/oembed_thumbnails/EwdQzg1PcETa8DbZBbp1eunE0Mwy8b58srPSIepJ_R4.jpg?itok=Ot2THdrd)
Mexico's Gustavo Sanchez on the magic of diving into challenges
‘Now I am a completely different Gustavo. Sport gives you that confidence’
![Eight athletes and staff of the Iraqi Para badminton team pose for a photo near the court.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2022-05/Team%20Iraq%20strike%20a%20pose%20at%20the%20Fazza%20Dubai%20Para%20Badminton.jpeg?h=5deed73c&itok=ArVWtxH5)
Iraqi Para shuttlers keen to make a mark after international debut in Dubai
Team coach aims for his players to rise to the top of the rankings among the Arab countries and in the West Asian region
![Jacky Hunt-Broersma runs along a sandy trail in Arizona with a mountain backdrop.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2022-05/jacky%20hunt%20broersma%20marathon%20runner.jpg?h=5d57582f&itok=FKMmSJht)
Record-breaker Hunt-Broersma will ‘never stop’… unless her other leg ‘falls off’
The South African-born amputee has recently completed 104 marathons in 104 consecutive days
![A male Para swimmer competing in a backstroke event](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2022-05/GettyImages-1336992507.jpg?itok=NuJQS18m)
Santiago 2023 Para swimming medal programme revealed
A total of 148 medal events will be held in the first edition of the Parapan American Games to take place in Chile from 17 to 26 November next year
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Paris GP to have record participation
The fourth edition of the competition will welcome more than 750 athletes from 57 countries to the French capital in June