Healthy and Fit for Optimal Performance
4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

male Para dancers Ivan Sivak, Nilson Pires, Pawel Karpinski on the dancefloor

Year to remember for these competitors on and off the floor

Chile's Juan Carlos Garrido celebrates winning gold at the Bogota 2018 orld Para Powerlifting Americas Open Championships.

Juan Carlos Garrido, Jorge Carinao and Camila Campos emerge victorious

male wheelchair racer Daniel Romanchuk breaks the tape on the finish line ahead of two other wheelchair racers

World record performances and a rising star highlight year

Magazine cover photo of Colombian athlete drawing a boccia ball to his face

Last magazine of 2018 filled with sporting action, inspiring features and informative case studies

Mahdi Pourrahnamaahmad - Taekwondo

Iran’s Mahdi Pourrahnama is the top name in the men’s middleweight division

Iryna Shchetnik | World Record | World Shooting Para Sport European Champs | Belgrade 2018

New marks set by Shchetnik and Ristic on final day of Euros

male powerlifter Joao Franca Junior prepares to lift the bar

Americas record broken and favourites shocked on day one

five Americas athletes competing in Para sport

Athletes nominated in badminton, boccia, judo, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair tennis

Para dancers Hanna Harchakova and Roman Usmanov in a ballroom pose on the dance floor

Partnerships that stole hearts of judges and audiences this year

Mac MARCOUX | Downhill | PyeongChang2018 Paralympic Winter Games

Double Paralympic alpine skiing champion forging new partnership

Head-to-Heads | Bogota 2018

Americas Open Championships offer powerlifting path to Tokyo 2020

Day one Para Biathlon Highlights | PyeongChang 2018

Paralympic champion celebrated by community ahead of new season

Judokas holding each other while falling onto the tatami

Judo World Championships set new milestones

male Para table tennis player Jordi Morales raises his arms at the table

Spaniard shares secret to long-awaited world title success

male Para swimmer Daniel Dias holding a gold medal and female Para swimmer Louise Fiddes holding a trophy

Brazil’s Daniel Dias and Great Britain’s Louise Fiddes win second edition

Veronika Vadovicova | European 10m Air Rifle Final | World Shooting Para Sport | Belgrade 2018

Slovakian maintains dominance of the R3 at shooting Euros

Didier Richard | Men's 10m final | World Shooting Para Sport European Championships | Belgrade 2018

Paralympian claims first title of the year at 10m Euros

Belgium's Peter Genyn breaks men's 400m T51 world record

Beginning our look back on the year’s decisive moments

A cross-country skiing course full of snow

Joint World Championships to be held for the first time in Norway

two people in wheelchairs seated next to two people standing

Athletes from the past join the present to remember home Games