Healthy and Fit for Optimal Performance
4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Nandor Tunkel

The Hungarian Rio 2016 bronze medallist wants to impress at the season opening World Cup in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Para sport shooters take aim on the rifle range

The SH2 shooter made history in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, once again to follow on from his appearance at Rio 2016.

A blindfolded football 5-a-side player.

The football 5-a-side player is confident the Asian team will build on their silver medal performance at Rio 2016 and continue improving in the lead-up to Tokyo 2020.

Football 5-a-side

Great Britain’s two-time football 5-a-side Paralympian shares his view on how sports can bring together communities from across the world.

The 2017 World Para Snowboard Championships was held in Big White, Canada, between 1-8 February.

Here are some takeaways from the World Para Snowboard Championships.

Canada's Chris Klebl won the men's middle distance cross-country sitting at Sochi 2014.

The Canadian men’s middle distance cross-country sitting Paralympic champion shared his affections for his sport.

US ice sledge hockey players celebrate after a goal

Guy Gosselin will replace former head coach Jeff Sauer who passed away in February, leading the defending champions to Gangneung, South Korea.

Man sitting on bench, celebrating

The first competition of the 2017 season will take place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from Monday (27 February).

Official logo of the Lima 2019 Parapan American Games

The Peruvian capital city will host the biggest Parapan American Games ever, with a record 1,850 athletes competing in 17 sports, two more than at Toronto 2015.

Ryley Batt AUS enters the scoring zone in the Gold Medal Match in the Mixed Wheelchair Rugby Between AUS and USA

The Australian wheelchair rugby team have won it all, and they are still hungry for more.

A series of Para sport shooters take aim on the shooting range

Pooja Agarwal and 15-year-old Avani Lekhara make a splash on their international debuts in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.

Veronika Vadovicova - Rio 2016

The Slovakian Paralympic silver medallist broke the world record of China’s Paralympic champion Cuiping Zhang in R8 (women’s 50m rifle three positions SH1).

people playing boccia

Sir Philip Craven and IPC colleagues joined forces to play Tokyo Governor Koike and other representatives of Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

Japan's Prime Minister Abe chats with IPC President Sir Philip Craven and IPC CEO Xavier Gonzalez during a meeting in February 2017.

Sir Philip Craven met with Prime Minister Abe on Wednesday in Tokyo as the two discussed preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

Manuela Schaer of Switzerland competes in the 800 meter - T54 Round 1 at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

The Swiss T54 wheelchair racer lines-up in Sunday’s marathon in the host city of the next Paralympic Games.

British Olympic track and field athlete Roald Bradstock

‘Art of the Olympians’ is a platform where Olympians and Paralympians can show their creative side, express themselves and document their involvement in the arts.

Paralympian Emma Foy, silver and bronze medallist at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

The Rio 2016 cycling medallists is taking time off to focus on a law degree and other areas in her life.

Carla Qualtrough was appointed Canada's Minister for Sport and Persons with Disabilities in November 2015.

Carla Qualtrough and Karolina Wisniewska are among the five to be inducted into the class of 2017

Follmann played sitting volleyball with Leite and watched the swimming and athletics national teams practice in the Brazilian Paralympic Centre.

Jakson Follmann was one of only six survivors of the tragic plane crash that killed 71 people, and tried Para sport for the first time.

Italy v Germany at the Buffalo 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships A-Pool

Para ice hockey players from Canada, Italy, Norway and South Korea will all take to the ice in a round-robin tournament from 27 February.