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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

Stephane Houdet

IPC pleased with Rio 2016 progress, wheelchair tennis history made, skiing retirements and more…

A skyline with many skyscrapers in the background. Red flowers and water in the front.

Doha 2015 will feature a maximum of 1,400 athletes competing in 210 medal events.

Scott Reardon and Heinrich Popow

The joint 100m T42 world champion pays tribute to his coach Iryna Dvoskina, the woman he credits with his success.

The British team enters the stadium at the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Games

Great Britain’s Caz Walton, a 10-time Paralympic champion, looks back on transport woes, accessibility and her first gold at the Tokyo 1964 Games.

Two young women wearing ski clothes and a silver medal holding hands and waving

Great Britain’s Paralympic silver medallist Jade Etherington has announced her retirement, and the USA’s Tatyana McFadden completes a second Marathon Grand Slam.

Marlou van Rhijn and her sister Suzanne enjoy the views from Rio's Sugar Loaf mountain.

The world’s fastest female blade runner is counting down the days until the next Paralympic Games in less than two years’ time.

Maria Lyle at Swansea 2014

British Athletics’ World Class Performance Programme gives extra funding and support to athletes with medal potential on the road to the Rio 2016 Paralympics.

USA athlete leaning forward in his wheelchair on the track at London 2012

The USA’s Joshua George, a Paralympic athletics champion, has teamed up with Olympic gold medallist Allyson Felix to help bring sport to under-privileged communities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Hannah Cockroft 100m T34 Lyon

Great British Paralympic champion Cockroft was inspired by poor dealings in the past to launch her own business venture.

Chuck Aoki

Reacting to an online blog that labelled wheelchair racing “not elite sport”, US wheelchair rugby player Chuck Aoki challenges Olympians to support Paralympians to be recognised as elite athletes in the media.

Women in racing wheelchair crosses the finish line on a street

The USA’s Tatyana McFadden recovered from a fall to win the New York Marathon, with Australia’s Kurt Fearnley scooping the men’s title.

Urko Egea Zabalza - Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympic Games - Para Snowboarding

The new IPC anti-doping code has been published, Australia are set to host the first ever integrated table tennis tournament and more.

5 male and female athletes in British jerseys stand and sit (in wheelchairs) next to each others in front of a black wall. Behind them is the logo: Swansea 2014. It's coming. Be part of it.

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations awarded gold to Swansea 2014 in the Best Sporting Campaign Category

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A total of 10 participants from six countries were trained in Namibia with the support of the Agitos Foundation and Norway Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports.

Peter Trotter Australia

Double Paralympian Peter Trotter, who won a full set of medals at the 1984 Paralympics, passed away aged 58.

athletes holding flowers facing the camera

The 12 athletes, who have excelled during 2014, were honoured during a special ceremony held by the Swiss Paralympic Committee.

The Incheon 2014 Asian Para Games closed on 24 October with a spectacular Closing Ceremony.

Major Championships announced, a series of world records at Incheon 2014 and partnership agreements are all highlights from the past seven days.

Man throwing a javelin

China produce another dominant display on the final day of athletics at the Asian Para Games, and there is a first gold for Myanmar.