PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Sir Philip Craven

Sir Philip Craven has been named "Innovator of the Year" by SportsBusiness International

Dylan Alcott celebrates winning his quad wheelchair tennis singles match against Great Britain's Andy Lapthorne at the 2014 Australian Open.

Kunieda, Griffioen and Whiley all progressed to the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters semi-finals with wins on Thursday.

Wearing blue lycra outfits, two men lie in their handcycles on an open road with hills in the background.

Ahead of the 2015 season, 17 Belgian athletes have enjoyed a week long training camp in Lanzarote.

Marcel Hug powers to victory in the 2014 IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Nottwil, Switzerland.

IPC Athletics has announced the biggest year ever of events for para-athletics in the year before Rio 2016

A group of five men, three blindfolded and wearing football shirts, jump up and hug in celebration

A 1-0 win over arch-rivals Argentina means Brazil have now won four world titles in the last 16 years.

Hannah Cockroft lighting the heritage flame in a metal sphere

• The IPC’s Top 50 Moments of 2014 continue with British Paralympian Hannah Cockroft’s involvement in the first ever international leg of the Paralympic Torch Relay.

Two women in wheelchairs on a tennis court hold a trophy and smile to the camera.

Shock on the first day of the 2014 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters, as Japan’s defending champion Yui Kamiji slips to defeat in the opening game

Sledge hockey players on the ice in action

Norway take a double win, but a victory for Sweden gives them their own edge in the overall standings.

A picture of a Wheelchair Fencer celebrating her victory

Zsuzsanna Krajnyak was the star of the show as Hungary excelled on home soil in Eger, winning four titles.

No. 36 Beatrice Vio fences to gold after studious hiatus

Having concentrated on schoolwork rather than wheelchair fencing in early 2014, Italian prodigy Beatrice Vio returned to win two titles at the European Championships.