Healthy and Fit for Optimal Performance
4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

The USA's Jarryd Wallace after breaking the 100m T44 world record at Toronto 2015.

The former 100m and 200m T44 world record holder has posted his fastest ever season-opening times.

APC Logo square

Popular vote will decide who the best athlete in the Americas was in April 2017, via www.americasparalympic.org.

Switzerland - wheelchair tennis - World Team Cup

The Netherlands, Switzerland, China and the USA advanced into the women’s semi-finals; France and Belgium secured a place in the men’s next round.

cross country skier and guide climb up a hill

Canada’s 10-time Paralympic champion speaks on the upcoming Paralympics and the growing depth and quality of the field.

Dutch table tennis player playing the ball

A host of Rio 2016 medallists are in Lasko for one of the top international competitions of the year.

Powerlifting Championships

Kazakhstan and Hungary respectively will stage the most important competition outside of the Paralympic Games.

Brazil - wheelchair tennis - World Team Cup

Both the Brazilian men’s and women’s teams won their ties at the wheelchair tennis World Team Cup in Alghero, Italy, on 2 May.

Arjola Dedaj in action at the 2014 IPC Athletics European Championships.

The fourth World Para Athletics Grand Prix of the season will take place in Italy.

Brian McKeever

Canada’s 10-time Nordic skiing Paralympic champion looks back on the 2016/17 season that saw him win two world titles.

Italy's Oney Tapia competes in the discus F11 at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

The Italian Paralympic discuss thrower will swap the dancefloor for this weekend’s event in Rieti.

London 2017 - logo for stories

The company will supply temporary structures for the summer of World athletics.

Woman holds sign with a man

Performances from the African Open in April shook up the rankings.

Man speaks to a crowd of people attending a seminar

The seminar aimed to raise awareness of the upcoming Summer Paralympic Games.

Amalia Perez - Mexico City 2015

Some of the world’s best will gather in the Hungarian city from 4-7 May to compete in the penultimate major event before the World Championships.

Nandor Tunel at the IPC Powerlifting European Open Championships in Eger, Hungary

Hungary’s Rio 2016 bronze medallist is hoping competing at a World Cup on home soil in Eger will act as a springboard ahead of Mexico 2017.

Croatia - Sitting Volleyball - European Championships

The Croatian city of Porec will stage the largest sitting volleyball event ever from 4-12 November 2017, with 16 countries competing.

World Team Cup - wheelchair tennis - Logo

With Alghero, Italy, hosting the 2017 World Team Cup, Australia’s wheelchair tennis player recalls some of his best moments at this event.

Dana Mathewson - USA - wheelchair tennis

Three of the four men’s and women’s wheelchair tennis pool ties went to deciding doubles rubbers on the first day of competition in Alghero.

Susannah RODGERS, Great Britain in the back stroke

Great Britain’s Susie Rodgers, the 50m butterfly S7 gold medallist from Rio 2016, is hanging up her goggles.

Collage of the five nominated athletes of the month

The public has until 9 May to vote for their favourite of the five athletes.