PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Blod women in orange jersey performing a long jump

The long jump world champion is hoping to recapture the form that won her a world title last year when she lines up against Britain’s Stef Reid.

A stunning view of Rio from Sugar Loaf Mountain

Win a trip of a lifetime for two to Rio 2016 as part of the IPC’s 25th anniversary celebrations this September

Team of a camera man and a women holding a microphone stand opposite of a man in sport dress. They seem to be preparing an interview. Background: A stage with a wheelchair on it

The Equal Halves project being run by the Trinidad and Tobago Paralympic Committee, and funded by the Agitos Foundation, has identified athletes, trained coaches and impacted thousands of people through in the last six months.

Sitting volleyball

World ParaVolley held its biennial General Assembly in Elblag, Poland on 12 June 2014 in the same city that is staging the 2014 World ParaVolley Sitting Volleyball World Championships for men and women.

Delegates attending the Incheon 2014 Chef de Mission seminar take a tour of one of the venues.

Asian Paralympic Committee express satisfcation ahead of October's Incheon 2014 Asian Para Games.

Justin Eveson

The Australian Rollers men’s national wheelchair basketball team have named their final 12 players who will represent Australia at the 2014 IWBF World Championships in South Korea.

Three sprinters run on a blue track

Having taken up para-athletics just 18 months ago and only recently finishing school, Germany’s Felix Streng is emerging as one of the surprise packages of the 2014 season and a potential rival to Great Britain’s Jonnie Peacock at August’s European Championships in Swansea, Great Britain.

Ali Jawad

Great Britain’s Ali Jawad arrived at the 2014 IPC Powerlifting World Championships with the aim of casting aside disappointment which started at Beijing 2008.

A picture of a woman in a wheelchair shooting between two defenders during a wheelchair basketball match.

There was only one word that Canada’s wheelchair basketballer Janet McLachlan could use to describe how she will feel when she takes to the court for Friday’s (20 June) World Championships opening match against Japan in front of friends and family - “Special”.

David Weir

Eight para-athletes named as part of England track and field squad for Glasgow 2014.