PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Sochi 2014

Two of the USA’s ice sledge hockey forwards for Sochi 2014 are just 15 and 16 years of age.

Alpine Skiing

Australian sadly passed away on Thursday evening aged 28.

Sochi 2014

The alpine skiing powerhouse will hope that Jon Santacana Maiztegui has recovered enough from an injury earlier in the season to make his mark in Sochi.

Wheelchair Basketball

The 12 teams participating in June’s event in Toronto have been divided into two pools.

Sochi 2014

Rising star Erin Latimer has been nominated to the Canadian team that will compete at March’s Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, Alpine Canada and the Canadian Paralympic Committee have announced.

Wheelchair Curling

A guide to the top Paralympic accounts to follow on Instagram at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.

Para Ice Hockey

The Americans enter the Sochi 2014 Paralympic ice sledge hockey competition as one of the teams favoured to make the podium.

Athletics

A number of World and Paralympic champions including Brazil’s Terezinha Guilhermina and Switzerland’s Marcel Hug will be amongst the 490 athletes taking part in the first IPC Athletics Grand Prix of the season which starts on Saturday (22 February) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Sochi 2014

Four of the seven Dutch athletes headed to Sochi will compete in snowboard, a discipline set to make its Paralympic debut.

Canada

Between the end of the Olympics and start of the Paralympics, top Canadian athletes will visit and speak to schools across Canada.

Sochi 2014

Nordic skier Mariann Marthinsen is aiming to follow on from fellow national greats at Sochi 2014 by winning her first Paralympic gold at her fifth winter and summer Games, to continue her current stunning form in cross-country skiing.

Shooting

Representatives of the IPC, ISSF and Italian Shotgun Shooting Federation met to discuss the potential for para-clay target shooting to become an IPC Shooting recognised discipline.

Sochi 2014

The Swiss delegation typically fields their strongest Paralympic Winter Games teams in alpine skiing.

Biathlon

The Austrians will be led by standing skiers Matthias Lanzinger and Markus Salcher, along with sit skier Claudia Loesch.

Sochi 2014

With a strong contingent of alpine skiers headed to Sochi, can Italy add to their total of 61 medals at the Paralympic Winter Games?

Sochi 2014

With the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games fast approaching, here’s a list of the top 14 athletes to follow on Twitter.

Swimming

An NBC Olympics production crew accompanied the American Paralympic champion to Russia to meet her birth family.

Sochi 2014

British Curling are hoping the exposure from the Sochi 2014 Paralympics help further develop their programme.

Cross-Country Skiing

Find out when you can watch your favourite sports and American athletes on NBC and NBCSN from 7-16 March.

Sochi 2014

The strongest medal hopefuls for the host nation lie in Nordic skiing and ice sledge hockey.