PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Two women smiling at each other in a swimmig pool after a race

Ukrainian Yelyzaveta Mereshko is hoping to challenge the dominance of Great Britain’s multiple world and Paralympic champion at the swimming Worlds from 13 July.

Women runs on a blue track, looks focused

Norman breaks 10-year-old women’s 800m T44 record by 10 seconds.

Man in wheelchair explains to audience

Keen to get involved with para-sport ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, 16 new national referees received training and passed their exam.

World Anti Doping Agency's Logo.

WADA Talks is a new interview series to feature sport and government leaders

The IBSA European Goalball Championships will take place in Kaunas, Lithuania, Sabonis Basketball Hall and Kaunas Sports Hall, between 5-12 July and will act as a qualifier for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

The event which is a Rio 2016 Paralympic qualifier gets underway on 5 July in Lithuania.

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Media can apply via the National Paralympic Committee in their country.

Football team lines up for team photo

The defending champions beat Ukraine 1-0 in the final of the CP Football 7-a-side World Championships.

Ukraine's Vasyl Kovalchuk took gold ahead of Finnish world champion Minna Leinonen at a 2015 IPC Shooting World Cup.

A number of great athletes are preparing themselves for three qualification World Cups, the first of which takes place in Osijek, Croatia, from 10 July.

Russia’s world, Paralympic and European long jump T38 champion Margarita Goncharova, gives an insight into her three heroes.

After breaking the long jump T38 world record last week in Berlin, Germany, the T38 athlete shares with us her three heroes.

Two athletes doing taekwondo

Behind the support of the National Paralympic Committee of Korea, the class will help develop athletes and the sport.