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Two European and one Asian record also fell on day three of the swimming European Open in Funchal, Portugal.

Paralympic Sport A-Z: Goalball

The sport will make its 11th Paralympic appearance at Rio 2016.

Moldova vs Romania at the 1st IBSA Euro Challenge Cup in Prague in 2014.

Six national teams will be taking the field on the second edition of this event, which will start on 3 May in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Music Monday with Hannah Cockroft

The T34 Paralympic, world and European champion shares her favourites songs.

Slovakia’s world and European champion Veronika Vadovicova, Hiltrop Natascha from Germany and Ryabchenko Tatiana from Russia.

The R3 world record holder won gold on day one.

Elodie Lorandi, France, doing the freestyle

Aurelie Rivard, Elodie Lorandi, Darya Stukalova, Ihar Boki and Talisson Glock all head through fastest in the heats at the swimming Euros on Monday (2 May).

Athletes in wheelchairs and standing pose for a group photo

World Championship couple Nadiia and Ivan Sivak danced to two golds in their 2016 debuts.

Football 7-a-side - Ukraine

The 2015 world silver medallists defeated the Dutch on day one of the Pre-Paralympic Tournament.

Matt Bugg competing in the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Cup in Melbourne, Australia.

Australia’s Matthew Bugg claimed the 2.4m class Sailing World Cup Hyeres gold, ahead of Norway’s Bjornar Erikstad and France’s Damien Seguin.

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Kazakhstan's Zulfiya Gabidullina tore down the women's 50m freestyle S3 mark to take the Open gold in Funchal, Portugal.

Valeriia Shabalina of Russia

Uzbekistan's Muslima Odilova also burst onto the scene with a new world best alongside Italian Arjola Trimi in Funchal, Portugal.

Maksym Veraksa

Rivalries will be reignited as some of para-swimming’s most decorated athletes compete in Funchal, Portugal.

Two women in jerseys smiling and raising her arms

Check out all the events that will headline this month in para-sport.

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The two Italian sprinters told 100 youngsters about their excitement for June’s IPC Athletics European Championships.

Cuba’s Yunidis Castillo and Omara Durand

Two of the world’s top sprinters talk about what it means to train under the guidance of their coach Miriam Ferrer – and how their relationship is more like family.

David Drahoninsky

Here are the top storylines in the sport leading up to the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

A swimmer wearing goggles laid on his back in the water at the start of a race.

Kokarev shaves more than two seconds off European record and Uzbekistan S13 swimmers break Asian records.

South Korea’s speed skating champion LEE Sang-hwa was appointed as Honorary Ambassador for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games.

Speed skater LEE Sang-hwa will play a role in engaging public attention to the Games.

Sarai Garcon competes in the Women's 200m Individual Medley SM9 at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain.

With 22 gold medals up for grabs, the opening day in Funchal, Portugal, will provide a thrilling start to the swimming European Championships.

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The new appointments will have a strategic oversight of London’s delivery of the World Athletics Championships.