PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Annika Zeyen of Germany during the Women's Wheelchair Basketball Gold Medal Match between Australia and Germany at the London 2012 Paralympics

For the first time in 2014, there will be separate men’s and women’s wheelchair basketball World Championship events.

USA and South Korea's ice sledge hockey teams

The USA beat South Korea and Canada recorded a victory over Russia on the second day of the World Sledge Hockey Challenge.

Wheelchair basketball

Both Australia’s men’s and women’s teams won the IWBF Asia-Oceania Zone Championships, qualifying themselves for the World Championships.

Sir Philip Craven at General Assembly 2013

Find out what the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is doing to increase the number of female leaders in the Paralympic Movement.

Athlete holding a rifle while practicing shooting.

Germany’s Natascha Hiltrop wins her first major title, and judge Robynne Browne raises the Paralympic flag at 2013 IPC Shooting European Championships.

Goalball

Algeria head into the event as the favourites after making it to the Paralympic quarter-finals last year in London.

Canada and South Korea's ice sledge hockey teams

Canada beat South Korea and the USA escaped with a win over Russia at the MasterCard Centre in Toronto.

Great Britain's Kelly Gallagher with guide Charlotte Evans

This month in para-sport will be highlighted by several major winter sport events, as well as the IPC Wheelchair Dance Sport world Championships.

Wheelchair dance sport - Osipov and Ryzhkova of Russia

World no.1 couple Galina Rhyzkhova and Viacheslav Osipov target third and most important title of 2013 at IPC Wheelchair Dance Sport World Championships this weekend.

Athletics - men's long jump T44 final - 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, Lyon

Germany’s Markus Rehm jumped a distance this season that would have put him in the long jump final of the able-bodied World Championships.