Healthy and Fit for Optimal Performance
4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Sitting volleyball at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Level 1 referee, coach and classifier courses will be offered in both English and Spanish in San Jose, Costa Rica, from 23-26 February.

Nicole Roundy

Gurimu Narita, Brenna Huckaby go two-for-two in the last competition before 2017 World Championships in Big White.

A visually impaired skier and his guide are interviewed

The Netherlands’ Jeroen Kampschreur also picked up his first career gold medal in Tarvisio, Italy.

Cross country skier in race suit in a slope

The Ukrainian is third in cross-country and second in biathlon in the World Cup overall rankings, and seeks further success at February’s Worlds.

Amy Purdy going over a hill in the snowboard cross course in Rosa Khutor.

Get to know the US snowboarder before she goes for World gold in Big White, Canada, next week.

Jody Cundy of Great Britain

Great Britain’s most successful female Paralympian ever, Dame Sarah Storey, will be joined by Paralympic medallists Megan Giglia and Jody Cundy.

Brenna Huckaby of USA competes at the 2015 IPC Snowboard World Championships.

The US snowboarder remains undefeated as the final competition before the 2017 World Championships kick off in less than a week.

A bobsleigh goes so fast down the track it's a blur.

The first World Championships will take place since the sport was provisionally added to the Beijing 2022 programme.

A picture of a man skiing on the slopes

The Australian will serve another two-year term on World Para Alpine Skiing’s Sport Technical Committee.

Borislava Peric-Rankovic SRB vs Miao Zhang CHN in the Women's Singles - Cl 4 Gold Medal Match at the Riocentro - Pavilion 3.

Four regional Championships and the World Team Championships highlight 2017.

PyeongChang 2018 emblem

MOUs signed with US and Korean Institutions to add weight to robust volunteer program

Strathmore water has been announced as the national supplier of bottled water for both the IAAF World Championships London 2017 and the World Para Athletics Championships.

Athletes, officials and volunteers at London 2017 will be hydrated by more than one million bottles of water being supplied by the water brand.

Visually impaired skiers needed for research at the Tarvisio 2017 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships

Researchers from the University of Waterloo are inviting athletes to help with classification at the Para alpine Worlds in Tarvisio, Italy.

Mike Minor

Minor remains undefeated while Purdy makes successful season debut, just ahead of the 2017 World Championships.

Amanda Dennis USA in action during the Goalball Women's Preliminary Group C match between the United States of America and Brazil at Future Arena

The US goalball player was a key member of the team that returned to the Paralympic podium at Rio 2016 and is now preparing for the next events.

Monique Kalkman-Van den Bosch was elected for induction to the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

The first Dutch female wheelchair tennis player to win Paralympic gold recalls Barcelona 1992, the Games in which she made history.

A visually impaired skier and guide in the mixed zone

Austria’s Claudia Loesch toppled Germany’s Anna Schaffelhuber in the super-G in snowy conditions in Tarvisio on Thursday (26 January).

Zviad Gogotchuri of Georgia

Ukraine has the most top-ranked judokas with four, followed by South Korea with two.

Downhill | 2017 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships, Tarvisio

Germany’s Anna Schaffelhuber also won gold alongside France’s Marie Bochet and the USA’s Andrew Kurka with downhill titles in Tarvisio, Italy.

Three men in wheelchairs on a podium showing their medals

Paralympic table tennis silver medallists Andela Muzinic and Helena Dretar Karic were also chosen the best Croatian team in 2016.