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4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Man and woman in wheelchairs dancing
Para dance sport

Following her performance at the season opener, Lin looks to improve ahead of Asia’s inaugural Championships in November.

Ade Orogbemi shoots for GB
Rio 2016

Competition tips off on 8 September, with games held in the Rio Olympic Arena and Carioca Arena 1.

Wheelchair fencing
London 2012

The Americas Championships will be the last chance for automatic Rio 2016 qualification.

Wheelchair fencing
Rio 2016

Brazil’s top wheelchair fencer aims to delight home crowd at Americas Championships.

Portrait picture of a woman
Cycling

Australia’s cycling Paralympic champion Carol Cooke says she would not change her multiple sclerosis diagnosis because it has made her the person she is today.

Logo for INAS Global ID Sports Week

The Global ID Sports Week is a week-long celebration of sport for athletes with intellectual disability.

Jonato Santos Machado of Brazil and Pablo Molina Lopez of Argentina during the Gold Medal match at the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games.
Football 7-a-side

What you need to know about the four sport classes in this Paralympic sport.

participans at the meeting
Para Ice Hockey

Nine countries met with the Sport Technical Committee in Moscow, Russia, to speak about competitions, equipment and officials.

Women on bench screaming of joy
Powerlifting

Coach of Chinese world champion and Paralympic silver medallist Yujiao Tan believes she has at least 10 years of competition left.

Tomas Hjert. Both players have been named to the IPC's Ones to Watch list for the next Paralympic cycle.
Wheelchair Rugby

The Swedish wheelchair rugby team, led by Tomas Hjert, look to improve on their sixth-place finish from London 2012.

Beatrice Vio
Wheelchair Fencing

Italian wheelchair fencer wins eleventh consecutive title

a female from Australia competing in a wheelchair with green and yellow clothes and a white helmet
Athletics

The Australian T53 athlete believes last year’s Grand Prix in Nottwil, where she broke the 400m world record, was a turning point in her sporting career.

Tickets for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Rio 2016

Tickets will now start to be distributed to fans around the world

Marlou van Rhijn celebrates after winning the womens 200m T44 final during day three of the IPC Athletics European Championships at Swansea
Athletics

The Dutch blade runner has set three worlds at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Switzerland in the last two years.

Paralympic Sports A-Z: Football 7 a Side
Football 7-a-side

This Paralympic sport is very similar to its able-bodied version, of course, with some modifications.

Heiko Kroeger
Sailing

The event will take place at the International Sailing Centre Medemblik in Netherlands, from 24-28 May.

Man on tricycle racing on the road
Cycling

Germany’s cyclists won ten golds at the second leg of the Road World Cup series, held in Ostend, Belgium, from 20-22 May.

Aled Davies
Athletics

The British world and Paralympic champion thrower likes spinning records as much as he enjoys breaking them.

R3 - 10m - 60 shots air rifle prone SH1 podium
Shooting

As well as securing quota places for their countries for the Paralympics, athletes have also been winning medals at World Cups to show their potential.

Team Iran Sitting Volleyballl celebrating
Iran

Ashrafi will succeed former Secretary General Amir Mandegarfard.