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Alex Zanardi

The 49-year-old Italian is hoping to add to the two para-cycling gold medals he won at London 2012 at September’s Paralympic Games in Rio.

Jose Roberto Ferreira de Oliveira (R) and Romario Diego Marques of Brazil fail to stop a goal during the Men's Group A Goalball match between Finland and Brazil at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

Brazil’s goalball star is hoping to help his country win the Paralympic title on home soil, at Rio 2016.

Beatrice Vio

The Italian wheelchair fencer won the women’s foil category B at the World Cup in Laval.

Lee Hee-beom has been nominated as the new President of the PyeongChang Organising Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games

The former minister has been put forward to succeed Yang-ho Cho who stepped down on Tuesday (3 May).

The world record holder in women’s long jump reflects on success and failure at previous World Championships.

The world record holder in women’s long jump reflects on success and failure at previous World Championships.

Alan Oliveira will be out to defend his 200m title at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

Track star Alan Oliveira and wheelchair tennis player Natália Mayara were amongst the first torchbearers.

Josef Neumaier of Germany

Neumaier forced a tie with Greece’s Sotirios Galogavros entering the final round and left with the victory.

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Sarah Louise Rung will try for her fourth gold medal in Funchal, Portugal, as part of a group of athletes looking for their next titles.

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The public has until May 11 to vote for their favourite from the five candidates.

Swimmers doing freestyle

New marks for Singapore, Ukraine, Norway, Sweden and Russia in Funchal, Portugal.

A swimmer competes in the breaststroke

Halfway through the seven day long European Open Championships, swimmers will race in the biggest programme with 25 gold medals on offer.

Marc Evers and Scott Quin competing in the Men's 100m Breaststroke SB14 at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow

Swimmers will be firmly into their groove and looking for their next medals at the swimming European Championships on 3 May.

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Cho joined the Organising Committee in August 2014.

Representatives from 26 nations attended a meeting in Bonn in May 2016 to discuss a number of subjects regarding the future of IPC Alpine Skiing and IPC Snowboard.

Over three days IPC Alpine Skiing and IPC Snowboard held a Sport Technical Meeting and nations meeting.

the upper body of a female playing table tennis and wearing a pink polo shirt

The top para-table tennis stars get to test themselves ahead of September’s Paralympic Games.

Goalball at the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games

The Rio 2016 Goalball Test Event will take place in the Future Arena from 4-5 May 2016.

Goalball at the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games.

Athletes are assigned to three sport classes and have to wear eyeshades to ensure fair competition.

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With immediate effect any athlete found with systolic blood pressure reading of over 160mmHg at a competition will not be allowed to compete on health grounds.

Luke Cain from Australia, Michael Johnson from New Zealand and Ryan Cockbill from Great Britain.

Cain defeated three-time Paralympian Michael Johnson in the R4 competition by 0.1 points.

Close up of a swimmer's face in the water

There were also two more Asian records at the Open Championships on Tuesday (3 May) in Funchal, Portugal.