A 1-0 win over hosts Sweden in Ostersund sees the team get their first points on the board.
Athletics
The Mayor of the city, Emilio Bonifazi, is the first person to be formally invited to June’s IPC Athletics European Championships.
Swimming
Belarusian multiple Paralympic, world and European medallist claims he is ’ready for all the surprises.’
Shooting
The Ukrainian shooter hopes to medal at his first Paralympic Games in September, without his trousers falling down.
Athletics
Around 237 athletes from 40 countries are set to compete at the Carlo Zecchini Olympic Stadium in the season’s fourth Grand Prix event.
Goalball
The US goalball player expects to play a key role in helping her team rebound from London 2012 disappointment.
Swimming
Paralympians Brad Snyder, Keichi Kimura and Matheus Sousa are fierce rivals in the pool, but have a friendship based on an understanding of life with a visual impairment.
Rio 2016
About 4.6 million people will get to watch Rio 2016 through TVNZ’s live streamed TV channel DUKE.
Athletics
IPC Athletics announces 16 events to take place at this summer’s Grand Prix Final in London, Great Britain.
Swimming
The world-renowned artist joins singer and celebrity Katia Aveiro as a proud advocate of the competition in Funchal, Portugal.
Rio 2016
The sport will take place on hard courts at the Olympic Tennis Centre.
Wheelchair Fencing
Wheelchair fencing has allowed the two nations to come together and experience each other’s cultures.
Para Ice Hockey
The Sochi 2014 silver medallists lead at the ice sledge hockey Euros on goal difference after their second game, whilst Italy and Norway are tied in second.
Athletics
The World and European champion in the T47 class shares his highs and lows.
New Zealand
Australasia’s largest retailers of Furniture, Bedding, Computer and Electrical will conduct a nationwide fundraising campaign in support of the team heading to Rio 2016.
Wheelchair Fencing
China’s Yijun Chen is hoping to guarantee a place at Rio 2016 with gold at the Asian Wheelchair Fencing Championships.
Wheelchair Tennis
Athletes are assigned to two sport classes, and all have an impairment that affects their legs.
Athletics
The British war veteran will be aiming to stake his claim for a place in the Paralympics GB team for Rio 2016 with a good performance at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix.
Athletics
Sprinter Isis Holt lowered her own 100m T35 world record, whilst Sophie Pascoe took more than a second off the 100m butterfly S10 mark.
Rio 2016
The first edition of 2016 profiles several of the athletes going for gold at September’s Games.