Healthy and Fit for Optimal Performance
4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Diede De Groot of the Netherlands playing against Yui Kamiji JPN in the Women's Singles Bronze Medal Match. Wheelchair Tennis at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Dutch world No.2 targets her second Grand Slam title

a male Para Nordic skier

Six of the leading contenders ahead of March’s Paralympic Winter Games

six cartoon mascot designs

Almost 14,000 elementary schools have already registered to vote

Sports of the Paralympic Winter Games: Cross-Country Skiing

Athletes compete in short, middle and long distance, and team relay events

a female Para alpine skier

The French alpine skiers could continue their outstanding seasons at the Tignes World Cup

Photo from inside a snow plow

IPC photographer Luc Percival takes a ride in a “snowcat” to see how a course is prepared

a wheelchair tennis player hits the ball

British player has the potential of becoming world No.1 if he wins the Australian Open

Australia's Isis Holt celebrates winning the gold medal with a world record in the women's 100m T35 at London 2017.

Four world champions named to compete in April’s Commonwealth Games

Logo of the Managua 2018 Para Central American Games

Nicaraguan capital city of Managua to receive up to 250 athletes from six countries

Ahead of the 2018 World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup, Tignes has been hit a huge downfall of snow.

Preparing for the season’s penultimate World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup

Benjamin Daviet

Benjamin Daviet and Mikhalina Lysova grab the only gold medals they were missing in this season’s World Cup

Biathlon Vuokatti

Biathletes are separated into standing, sitting and vision impaired categories for competition

Iuliia Batenkova - Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympic Games

The Ukrainian took women’s standing middle distance gold by slim margins at second World Cup

Photo collage of four male ice hockey officials

13 referees and linesmen will call games at PyeongChang 2018

US women wheelchair basketball players celebrating

Final roster for 2018 Worlds in Hamburg will be announced at a later date

a female Para Nordic skier

Paralympic and world champions seek to achieve glory at March´s Winter Paralympics

Collage of 10 athletes

Vote now on Americasparalympic.org to decide who last year´s best athlete in the Americas was

World Anti Doping Agency's Logo.

The European Court of Human Rights rejects legal challenge to the implementation of Whereabouts rules.

Podium shot of Andrea Eskau, Marta Zainullina and Birgit Skarstein embracing.

Second Nordic skiing competition of the season as countdown to PyeongChang 2018 continues

The PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Village will house upto 2,268 personnel during the Winter Games.

Park Eun-soo will manage the area where Paralympic athletes will stay during the Games