PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Michelle Salt, Canada flys by a gate in the first ever Women's Para Snowboarding Cross in the Winter Paralympic Games

John Leslie and Michelle Salt will line-up alongside new team members Alex Massie and Daniel Shoemaker.

Group shot of six people in front of a wooden wall, smiling to the camera

Japanese skiers are the first to arrive in Cable, Wisconsin, USA, for the 2015 IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships which open on 23 January.

Two men running outside

Colombian athlete was laid low for much of 2014 but is now fully recovered and keen to impress

A picture of a woman in the pool with her head and hands above the surface

Fourteen athletes, including reigning world champions Jessica Long and Ian Silverman, make-up the A team for 2015.

Matt Formston and Michael Curran

Team for March’s event in the Netherlands features three reigning world champions.

A Canadian athlete tests the Cisco Milton Pan Am/Parapan Am Velodrome

Opening of the Cisco Milton Pan Am/Parapan Am Velodrome marks six months until the Games begin.

Ottobock Equipment Loaner Programme

Programmes in Italy, Norway and Croatia have resulted in the establishment of two new ice sledge hockey teams, regional development and increased public awareness.

PASO Secretary General Jimena Saldana and APC President Jose Luis Campo sign a historic co-operation agreement between the two organisations

Agreement means that bidding cities for the Pan American Games are also obliged to bid for the Parapan American Games as a “host city for both Games”.

Logo Gambia National Paralympic Committee

The President of the Gambian NPC hopes that the success of the festival will encourage regions to further develop para-sport.

Claudia Loesch of Austria

Austria’s Claudia Loesch and Matthias Lanzinger will race in super-combined, slalom and giant slalom races on home snow in Matrei.