Healthy and Fit for Optimal Performance
4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

USA's Danelle and Rob Umstead raise the 2015-16 IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup globe for women's slalom visually impaired

The British alpine skier and guide Jen Kehoe are hoping to consolidate their progress.

Agitos

The deadline for applications is 15 March 2017.

Anja Wicker, Germany turning

Germany’s Paralympic biathlon champion Anja Wicker is training hard towards her home World Championships in Finsterau, from 10-19 February.

Upper body of man in wheelchair celebrating with medal around his neck

Paralympic champion Kunz leads the five-strong team at the World Championships in Tarvisio

Martin Fleig of Germany competes at the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympic Games.

The German secured his first World Cup win in biathlon after two years, in Western Center, Ukraine, on 20 January.

Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games - Alpine Skiing Medal

Forster defeats teammate Schaffelhuber in final competition ahead of World Championships.

Sao Paulo 2017 mascot

The fourth Youth Parapan American Games can now be found on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Miroslav Haraus

The Slovakian super combined world champion is ready to ‘fight for the best results’ across all five alpine skiing disciplines.

Screen shot from Coach training video

They are aimed at coaches and referees, whilst Heidelberg was selected host city of the 2017 German Judo Open and training camp, from 24-28 February.

Georg Kreiter of Germany competes in Men's Downhill Sitting at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games

The German alpine skier has one eye on PyeongChang 2018 as he looks to defend his two World titles.

Lisa Gjessing - Taekwondo

WTF President says 2017 World Championships expected to be the biggest Para taekwondo event to date.

Sao Paulo 2017 mascot

Athletes must be between 15-20 years old, and each NPC can take up to three athletes per category to this year’s Youth Parapan American Games.

Thomas Steiger - Rio 2016

Lahti, Finland, will stage the event from 20-22 January, with goalball teams from nine countries competing in both men’s and women’s tournaments.

Norway's Birgit Skarstein, AS Women's Single Sculls heat, 2015 World Rowing Cup II Varese, Italy

Nine rowers and eight wheelchair basketball players have been named as athletes to look out for in 2017.

A male athlete with prosthetic legs and a female athlete

Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill and double Paralympic gold medallist Richard Whitehead are ambassadors and part of the judging panel for entries

Male alpine sit skier races down a mountain

Dutch, Austrian, German, Canadian Italian and Slovakian athletes all reached the top of the podium at the World Cup in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.

Vitaliy Lukyanenko - Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games

Ukraine’s multi-Paralympic champion won the men’s biathlon sprint visually impaired at a World Cup on home soil in Western Center, on 19 January.

Andreas Onea of Austria competes at the Men's 100m Breaststroke SB8 Final at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

The swimmer sealed his first Paralympic medal at Rio 2016, ending a run of fourth place finishes.

Jetze Plat NED celebrates winning the Gold Medal in the Men's PT1 Triathlon at Fort Copacabana. The Paralympic Games, Rio de Janeiro

Six taekwondo athletes and 14 triathletes have been named as athletes to look out for in 2017.

Great Britain’s Gordon Reid

The new wheelchair tennis rankings have been published by the International Tennis Federation whilst the Melbourne Open draws were also revealed.