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4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Group of young people sitting around a table with laptops, discussing
Rio 2016

Workshop with around 50 journalists, designers, programmers and students kicks off celebrations for one year to Rio 2016.

Man in a sledge, playing hockey on the ice
PyeongChang 2018

Fresh from silver-medal success in wheelchair basketball at Toronto 2015, Liam Hickey is hoping to make his Team Canada dreams a reality again.

Mariska Beijer
Wheelchair Basketball

The defending European women’s champions defeated the London 2012 Paralympic champions on day six.

Man in wheelchair doing a dancing pose
Para dance sport

Hungary will enter their first competition being held in St. Petersburg alongside athletes from nearly 20 countries.

Michael McKillop, Stef Reid and Scott Reardon.
Athletics

Find out family connections for Michael McKillop, Scott Reardon and Stef Reid are spurring them on to even greater things.

Jason Smyth, the fastest Paralympic athlete on the planet.
Rio 2016

Irishman, the fastest para-athlete of all time, in Brazil to help celebrate one year until the Games.

David Brown trains with his guide Jerome Avery in Urca.
Rio 2016

Unprecedented race will bring together runners with different types of disability in celebration of one year until the Paralympic Games.

Wheelchair athlete on the track
Athletics

The T34 wheelchair racer talks about the influence of Kurt Fearnley and how he is aiming to win his first world title this October.

Vinicius and Tom, mascots for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Rio 2016

The two-day festival will include a race to define the world’s fastest sprinter, plus a rival football match between Brazil and Argentina.

Two athletes doing taekwondo
Summer Sports

Five World Championships events in para-sport will be scattered throughout this month, along with four regional Championships.

Collage of five athlete photos
Archery

The public has until 9 September to vote for their favourite from the five candidates.

Woman cross country skiing
Cross-Country Skiing

Inclusion of marathon distance for the first time, as six biathlon and cross-country World Cups are confirmed.

Group shot of a wheelchair basketball team
Wheelchair Basketball

The women’s basketball team continued their campaign toward a consecutive European Championship crown, while the Turkish and German men stay undefeated.

Hannah Cockroft Stoke Mandeville
Rio 2016

The ‘Heritage Flame’ will merge with the Brazilian Regional Flames in the lead up to the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony.

Terezinha Guilhermina
Athletics

Many of the world’s fastest para-athletes will race over 100m to mark one year to go until the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Rowing was introduced for the first time at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games.
Rowing

Heats in the para-rowing boat classes got underway, with the Israeli rower recording the fastest qualifying time in her heat.

Group of archers huddled
Archery

The final day of the World Archery Para Championships featured Great Britain dominating the VI 2/3 category.

Two women in wheelchairs, playing basketball, fighting for the ball
Wheelchair Basketball

The German women beat hosts Great Britain whilst the Spanish men took their match to overtime.

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

The month was packed with three World Championships and the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games.

Female archer competing
Archery

The Great British archer will serve a second term for four more years.