PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
![Three male snowboarders pose on podium](/sites/default/files/images/171116161007915_mike%2Bschultz%2Bchris%2Bvos%2Bnoah%2Belliot.jpg)
Mike Schultz saves best for last in Landgraaf
US snowboarder upsets reigning world champion Chris Vos at World Cup
![Wheelchair curlers competing on the ice](/sites/default/files/images/171116163637694_US%2Bwheelchair%2Bcurling%2Bteam.jpg)
US name wheelchair curling team
Five athletes will compete at PyeongChang 2018
Shea edges Suur-Hamari in Landgraaf
Tiebreaker decides men’s SB-LL2 winner in first day of World Cup
![Joachim Gerard of Belgium celebrates after winning the mens final match against Gordon Reid of Great Britain on Day 5 of the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on December 04, 2016 in London, England.](/sites/default/files/images/161205111358547_GettyImages-627621090.jpg)
Belgium’s Gerard targets third successive Masters title
Wheelchair tennis player is hoping to win the year-end competition despite missing most of the season due to injury
Q&A with US snowboarders
Catch up with reigning Worlds medallists and veterans as they prepare for Landgraaf
![IPC Top 50 Moments: No 47](/sites/default/files/styles/video_crop_16_9/public/oembed_thumbnails/Rm6Q0D4d5YTd5gfqvFA206DlUgZmA-GD3nCoxK621MU.jpg?itok=pCg3bsFY)
Top 50 Moments of 2017: No. 47 – Largest IWRF Americas Championship held in Paraguay
Host team makes first appearance at an international wheelchair rugby competition
![Marcel Hug - Para athletics - Switzerland](/sites/default/files/images/171115111118739_Marcel%2BHug.jpg)
Swiss Paralympic and Allianz extend partnership through to 2020
Agreement to help fund athletes trainings in the lead-up to Tokyo 2020
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Top 50 Moments of 2017: No. 48 – Development of female Para sport
Camps in Para ice hockey and wheelchair basketball held this year
![Costa Rica - Blind Football](/sites/default/files/images/171114134652590_Costa%2BRica%2Bchampions.jpg)
Costa Rica win Blind Football Central American Championships
Regional champions qualify for 2018 World Champs in Madrid, Spain
![Woman on a snowboard](/sites/default/files/images/150724145645653_GettyImages-478571915.jpg)
World’s best snowboarders set for Landgraaf
Vos and Bunschoten to star on home snow
![a man a woman smiling with a gold medal and the Italian flag](/sites/default/files/images/171109095346434_Vio%2Bwins.jpg)
Rome 2017: Five things we learned
The key stories from the Wheelchair Fencing World Championships
![Japan’s Gurimu Narita competes at the 2017 World Para Snowboard Championships in Big White, Canada.](/sites/default/files/images/170213094457673_Gurimu-Narita.jpg)
Narita shows speed at Europa Cup
The Japanese snowboarder wins race and shows he can shake things up at the World Cup
![a man smiling at the camera](/sites/default/files/images/171102110320712_Kale%2Bscreengrab.jpg)
Duane Kale enters Attitude Hall of Fame
IPC Vice President named in New Zealand broadcaster’s 2017 class
![A general view of a street scene near the PyeongChang Mountain Cluster, host of the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games.](/sites/default/files/images/170301080950183_PyeongChang%2B2018.jpg)
UN General Assembly approves Olympic Truce for PyeongChang 2018
Truce will cover both Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games next year
![Ukraine's women celebrate the defence of their sabre team world title in Rome, Italy.](/sites/default/files/images/171113083204591_Ukraine.jpg)
Rome 2017: Ukraine’s women seal team gold
Top seeds saw off Italy to take sabre world title on final day of Wheelchair Fencing World Championships
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NPC Croatia wins top prize for social inclusion project
‘Wholehearted coaches’ scheme recognised as best in Europe by Allianz
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Top 50 Moments of 2017: No. 49 - Australia's women make goalball history
Team wins country’s first gold medal at World Youth Championships
![a female wheelchair racer crosses the finish line](/sites/default/files/images/171009090709912_Tatyana%2Bwins%2BChicago%2Bcropped.jpg)
Tatyana McFadden named Americas ‘Athlete of the Month’
US wheelchair racer wins an astonishing seventh consecutive Chicago Marathon
![a group of male and female sitting volleyball players celebrate](/sites/default/files/images/171113130512684_Russians%2Bwin%2Bsitting%2Bvolleyball.jpg)
Russia celebrate double gold at sitting volleyball Euros
Ukraine have to settle for silver in both men’s and women’s competitions
![a male Para snowboarder](/sites/default/files/images/170831174538728_Chris%2BVos%2B-%2BJim%2BHall.jpg)
Chris Vos ‘pretty stoked’ to start season
Dutch teenager to get first taste of competitive action in Landgraaf