Healthy and Fit for Optimal Performance
4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

British swimmer Stephanie Slater comes up for a breath of air.

Brit smashes world record by more than a second on Wednesday morning as home favourite Zijderveld wins gold with a European record.

Toronto 2015 emblem

Meet the athletes in the "Are you Ready?" trailer

A picture of a woman in the pool with her hand up

Norway’s Sarah Louise Rung, Great Britain’s Eleanor Simmonds and the hosts’ very own Marc Evers and Marlou van der Kulk will all be in action on day three (6 August) at the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships.

A picture of three men underwater

Nederlanders grijpen naast eremetaal.

Ihar Boki

At his first outing in Eindhoven, Belarusian Ihar Boki stormed to gold in 50m freestyle S3 – an event he has struggled with in the past.

Elodie Lorandi

A series of top-level women’s events will headline Thursday (7 August) at the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships with world and Paralympic champions competing.

Toronto 2015

A French player wearing blue collides with his German opponent during a wheelchair rugby game.

A semi-final spot is on the line when Canada meet Great Britain, in the highlight of Thursday's game in Odense, Denmark.

An aerial view of the Olympic and Paralympic Village for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Construction across the four competition zones is progressing, with 55 per cent of venues now ready.

A Danish player wearing red loses control of the white ball as he is sandwiched between two Australian players wearing green.

Australia, Canada, Japan and USA remained unbeaten after Wednesday’s fixtures.

Joann Formosa

Australia will be sending four riders and their horses to the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2014, including one Paralympic gold medallist.

Ronald Hertog Opening Ceremony London

Dutch T44 athlete will aims for success in the long jump, 100m and 200m at the IPC Athletics European Championships.

A Dutch swimmers celebrates winning gold at the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships

5 male and female athletes in British jerseys stand and sit (in wheelchairs) next to each others in front of a black wall. Behind them is the logo: Swansea 2014. It's coming. Be part of it.

Following interest from the Commonwealth Games, ticket sales for the 2014 IPC Athletics European Championships are fast selling out.

Maddison Elliott

The 2014 Pan Pacific Para-Swimming Championships will feature a host of top stars, with swimmers competing from a total of 19 countries.

Swimmers start a backstroke race at the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships.

Day two at the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, will feature the debut of the mixed 4x50 freestyle relay 20 points.

A British swimmer is filmed on completed a race a the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships

The reaction from athletes including Netherland’s Chantalle Zijderveld, gold medal winner in a new European record time.

Rio event block

Initiative aims to promote Olympic and Paralympic values to youngsters

Male swimmers start a race at the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships

Great Britain won three gold medals in the morning session at the Eindhoven 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships.

A group of four players in wheelchairs - two per side - fight for the ball during a wheelchair rugby match.

Semi-final hopes are on the line for many teams on the second day ofthe IWRF World Championships in Odense, Denmark