Healthy and Fit for Optimal Performance
4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

female Para shooter Maria Teresa Restrepo sitting a wheelchair with a male athlete either side holding up medals

Colombian athletes stand out in shooting Para sport event

male wheelchair racer Marcel Hug holding up a Switzerland flag

A lookback at the leading contenders ahead of next stop in Boston

female Para athlete Natalija Eder throws a javelin

Paralympic champions to introduce sports to children

A group of people standing on a dressage arena

British and Dutch riders grab podium positions ahead of Europeans

female Para taekwondo fighter Debora Menezes with other fighters holding a Brazilian flag

Brazil’s first female taekwondo world champion targets Paralympics

Man playing guitar while lying down

Peruvian singer Pedro Suarez-Vertiz selected by Organising Committee

Lisa Bunschoten | Banked Slalom | Pyha 2019

Dutch snowboarder won her first major gold medals

male Para snowboarder Patrick Mayrhofer rides in front of another snowboarder

Snowboard-cross races close out 2018-19 season

a male powerlifter prepares on the bench

Athletes and coaches commit to sport free from doping

Matias Pino of Chile

Chilean table tennis player makes headlines after taking silver at Lignano Open

Group photo of IPC staff posing

Record-number of employees showcase inclusion in hometown

An armless man swimming next to a short stature man

Chinese swimmer breaks two world records in Indianapolis

landmarks in Tokyo, including the Tokyo Tower and Imperial Palace

Paralympic course will follow same route as Olympic event

Banner of the Agitos Foundation NPC Development Programme displayed during workshop

Applications for conducting evaluation of the NPC Development Programme open until 1 May

male wheelchair tennis players from Austria holding up Austrian scarves and flags

European Qualification finals concludes in Portugal

male Para badminton player Krishna Nagar plays a forehand

Nagar beats world No. 1 and 2 on way to Fazza title

Three men in wheelchairs in a podium

Mexican swimmer breaks world record on the final day of the World Series

a group of male and female Para shooters from Colombia next to the target range

Shooters from 10 countries to fight for Lima 2019 quotas

three male Para swimmers celebrate at the edge of the pool

Meeting the history-making swimmers from Indonesia 2018

Simone Barlaam, in the middle, set a new world record in the men’s 50m freestyle S9

Indianapolis World Series also sees Americas marks bested