PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Raquel Viel - Brazil - Swimming

Bronze in Mexico is the swimmer’s first ever podium in the World Championships

IPC Top 50 Moments of 2017: No 17

Dominant Dutch team lose surprising final to eighth seed China

Para ice hockey training camp in Israel

First training camp to teach basics of the sport held in Tel Aviv

Beijing 2022 - Official emblem - Paralympic Winter Games

Emblem emphasises Chinese culture and the importance of placing athletes at the centre of the Games

Norway's Birgit Skarstein, AS Women's Single Sculls heat, 2015 World Rowing Cup II Varese, Italy

Norwegian dual sport athlete recognised for 2017 achievements

a female wheelchair curler pushes the stone across the ice

Four athletes will make Paralympic Winter Games debuts

Great Britain's Kadeena Cox  celebrates winning the women's 400m T38 at London 2017.

Big names will compete for England, Wales, Scotland and New Zealand at Commonwealth Games

Alpine skier skies down a hill

Aaron Lindstrom got the thumbs up to compete in the Paralympic Winter Games

IPC Top 50 Moments: No 18

Afghan-born swimmer becomes first refugee to reach the podium at World Championships

IPC Top 50 Moments: No 19

Canada dominate arch rivals USA to win World Championships