Healthy and Fit for Optimal Performance
4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Ruth Hagspiel - alpine skiing

Slalom, giant slalom and super combined helped skiers win coveted trophies in Switzerland.

A Tokyo 2020 emblem can be seen from up.

The guidelines aim to provide an enhanced environment that will secure more opportunities for access to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Two blind footballers fighting for the ball

The football 5-a-side regional Championships will be held from 9-18 December.

Agitos

Martin Novak tested positive during an in-competition test at December’s IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships B-Pool in Japan.

Verena Bentele and her guide Thomas Friedrich of Germany celebrate winning the Women's 3km Pursuit Visually Impaired Biathlon at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Paralympics.

Aside from their sport careers, find out which athletes also make the most of their talents off the field of play.

A Para swimmer celebrates a new world record

World Championships qualification spots for US athletes are up for grabs in Canada.

Man in wheelchair holds trophies with two other men next him.

The UNIQLO senior vice president shares his thoughts on how the partnership has and will continue to change Japan.

Canada won 3-0 over Norway at the 2016 World Sledge Hockey Challenge in Charlottetown, Canada.

A key qualifier for the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, Gangneung 2017 is the premier event for Para ice hockey fans this season.

Upper-body photo of a man smiling

Paralympic medallist Inbal Pezaro also elected athlete representative on NPC’s board.

Two rowers in a boat on the water

The Paralympic champion and cancer survivor has been encouraging others to take on the rowing challenge to raise charity money.

NPC Belgium logo

The Japanese airline will be the official carrier for the Belgian Paralympic Team.

Man with missing left forearm races arms as he is about to cross a finish line

Seventeen summer and winter sport athletes will be supported to find a better balance between work and training.

Algeria's Nadia Medjmedj throws in the women's shot put F55/56/57 at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France.

Find out what pointers we can take from the first World Para Athletics Grand Prix on 2017

NPC Rwanda logo.

The former sitting volleyball player will begin his first term as President of the NPC.

Man on ice sledge hockey makes a turn

Can the Germans reach a top five finish at the Para ice hockey World Championships to qualify for PyeongChang 2018?

Italian woman celebrates on a horse

The Para equestrian contest in France is the first major European international competition of 2017.

Team Preview: Germany

Can the Germans reach a top five finish at the Para ice hockey World Championships to qualify for PyeongChang 2018?

International Wheelchair Basketball Federation logo

Turkey and Iran highlight Pool A of the wheelchair basketball competition, while Great Britain lead Pool B.

Richard Whitehead of Great Britain

The British foundation’s Children’s Activity Prosthetic Fund is expected to supply around 70 children with activity limbs.

The initiative ‘Paralympian Recognition Programme’ aims to recognise every Irish athlete since the first Paralympic Games in Rome, in 1960.

The NPC is asking the public to help contact past Irish Paralympians whom they hope to honour at a special event later in 2017.