PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

A picture of 2 men in sledges celebrating a goal during a ice sledge hockey match

Alongside Japan, Germany made it into the A-Pool following a gold medal winning performance from the 2013 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships B-Pool.

Around 570 athletes from 40 countries are at the Berlin Europa Sports Park as part of their preparations for July’s 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain.

Three new marks for Great Britain and two for Australia at the International Deutsche Meisterschaft in Berlin, Germany.

The lead group of the marathon goes past the Forbidden City at Tiananmen Square at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games.

Ahead of this weekend’s IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Beijing, China, here are five facts you may not know about Beijing

Two dancers in wheelchairs posing during a performance

Top ranked couples will begin 2015 at the 2015 IPC Wheelchair Dance Sport Kazakhstan Open from Saturday (18 April).

Group shot of around 25 people

The first of four workshops for coaches, classifiers, athletes and sport managers, run in partnership with Rio 2016 and the Brazilian Paralympic Committee, will start on Saturday (18 April).

Veronika Vadovicova, Iurii Stoiev and Waldermar Andruszkiewicz finished on the podium at the IPC Shooting World Cup

Slovakian rifle shooter extraordinaire looks comfortable once again to take a convincing victory at the IPC Shooting World Cup in Szczecin.

Seven people on a podium during a press conference

Four Paralympic and Worlds medallists will form part of a team of 36 powerlifters competing at home in the Americas Open from 26-29 April.

A picture of two men in sledges fighting the puck during a ice sledge hockey match

Reigning European champions Italy have an impressive mix of youth and experience heading into Buffalo 2015.

Lisha Huang of China competes at the London 2012 Paralympic Games

Around 160 athletes from 14 countries will compete in the fourth Grand Prix of 2015.

Andrew Parsons, President of the Brazilian Paralympic Committee with Brazilian athletes at the Sao Paulo Fashion Week

Paralympic standouts model Parapan Am ceremonial uniforms in Latin America‘s biggest fashion event