After winning the 200m world title in 2013, the Brazilian T38 sprinter said her life changed forever.
Swimming
The most decorated athlete from the 2013 Worlds is giving little away about Ukraine’s hopes for the 2015 edition.
Great Britain
A number of British Paralympic medallists will join National Paralympic Day celebrations in Brighton, Nottingham and Plymouth.
Football 7-a-side
After two weeks of intense competition at the Cerebral Palsy Football 7-a-side World Championships find out who made the team of the tournament.
Azerbaijan
The award is bestowed upon heads of state who have contributed to the development of the Paralympic Movement.
VISTA
At October’s conference in Girona, Spain, David Sanz-Rivas, Scientific Director Royal Spanish Tennis Federation will talk about the athlete pathway from grassroots to elite performance.
Lebanon
The National Paralympic Committee gathered together supporters and partners to offer try-outs of wheelchair basketball, table-tennis and football-5-a-side.
Swimming
Ukrainian Yelyzaveta Mereshko is hoping to challenge the dominance of Great Britain’s multiple world and Paralympic champion at the swimming Worlds from 13 July.
Athletics
Norman breaks 10-year-old women’s 800m T44 record by 10 seconds.
Powerlifting
Keen to get involved with para-sport ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, 16 new national referees received training and passed their exam.
WADA Talks is a new interview series to feature sport and government leaders
Lithuania
The event which is a Rio 2016 Paralympic qualifier gets underway on 5 July in Lithuania.
Rio 2016
Media can apply via the National Paralympic Committee in their country.
Football 7-a-side
The defending champions beat Ukraine 1-0 in the final of the CP Football 7-a-side World Championships.
Rio 2016
A number of great athletes are preparing themselves for three qualification World Cups, the first of which takes place in Osijek, Croatia, from 10 July.
Athletics
After breaking the long jump T38 world record last week in Berlin, Germany, the T38 athlete shares with us her three heroes.
Taekwondo
Behind the support of the National Paralympic Committee of Korea, the class will help develop athletes and the sport.
Judo
The new rankings take into account performances at May’s IBSA World Games in Seoul, Korea.
Rio 2016
The Agitos Foundation is working with Rio 2016 and the Brazilian Paralympic Committee to ensure a meaningful legacy for para-sport in the Americas.
Botswana
National Paralympic Committee builds on momentum of Agitos Foundation’s Organisational Capacity Programme participation.