Healthy and Fit for Optimal Performance
4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Sanne Voets (NED) reacts to confirmation that she has won her first paralympic gold medal.

The Netherlands’ Rio 2016 gold medallist Sanne Voets led the way on home soil, from 26-28 May.

Cycling Road at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Check out all the events that will headline this month in Para sport.

Five Para athletes have been shortlisted for the Allianz Athlete of the Month poll for May 2017

The public has until 8 June to vote for their favourite from the five candidates.

A Para ice hockey player celebrates a game win

The Italian will serve as the athlete voice on the sport’s STC.

Chuck Aoki

The French capital staged a World Para Athletics Grand Prix for the first time this week.

A blade runner crossers the finish line ahead of her rivals.

More than 200 of the world’s best athletes will be lining up in Switzerland.

Shooting - para trap

Developments for Technical and Classification Rules, as well as 2018 competition calendar are now in the works.

Man in wheelchair tries to block another man in wheelchair playing basketball

Beijing to host Asia-Oceania wheelchair basketball qualifiers

Germany's Johannes Floors celebrates winning the men's 4x100m T42-47 final during Doha 2015.

Germany’s Johannes Floors goes under 11 seconds for the first time at an international competition in the 100m T43.

France's Nantenin Keita celebrates victory in the women's 400m T13 final at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Nantenin Keita, Mandy Francois-Elie, Timothee Adolphe and Pierre Fairbank were amongst the winners in the French capital on Tuesday.

The USA's David Blair in action during the men's discus F44 final at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships  in Doha, Qatar.

The Paralympic discus champion walks us through his day as an athlete, database administrator and father of four.

Tokyo 2020 emblems

The Paralympic Games in Tokyo will take place between 25 August and 06 September.

Stephane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer of France

Check out what went on in the Paralympic Movement during May.

Argentinian swimmer Facundo Arregui at Rio 2016.

Thirteen swimmers will represent the South American country at the World Championships in Mexico City, from 30 September-6 October.

Portrait picture of a woman

On World Multiple Sclerosis Day (31 May), Australia’s three-time Paralympic cycling champion reflects on her diagnosis almost two decades ago.

Three wheelchair racers approaching the finish line on the track of a stadium

More than 200 athletes from 29 countries will compete between 2-5 June.

A picture of a woman showing her gold medal during a medal ceremony

The five-time Paralympic champion targets further success after breaking the world record in all three events she raced in in Arbon, Switzerland.

Evan Strong, USA begins his gold medal run on his snowboard.

The US snowboarder won his first World Cup crystal globe last season.

Witsanu Huadpradit

Thai athletes claimed two individual golds and won the team event.

A picture of men ready to swim

An outreach programme was held in conjunction with the World Para Triathlon Series in Yokohama.