PARA ATHLETICS NEWS

Find out who are the young track and field stars who could come of age during the 2015 para-athletics season

2014 has been a hugely successful year for the sports governed by the International Paralympic Committee.

Anne Wafula-Strike joins UK Athletics as a non-executive director

After each winning two European titles in 2014, both make the shortlist for the RTÉ Sport Sports Person of the Year.

In front of a passionate home crowd, Clegg and Huggins won Scotland’s first Commonwealth track medal for 20 years

Brazilian Paralympic Committee announce names of six athletes in the running for best athlete of the year.

Swiss para-athlete of the year to be announced on 14 December.

Ahead of the 2015 season, 17 Belgian athletes have enjoyed a week long training camp in Lanzarote.

IPC Athletics has announced the biggest year ever of events for para-athletics in the year before Rio 2016

IPC pleased with Rio 2016 progress, wheelchair tennis history made, skiing retirements and more…

Doha 2015 will feature a maximum of 1,400 athletes competing in 210 medal events.

The joint 100m T42 world champion pays tribute to his coach Iryna Dvoskina, the woman he credits with his success.

Great Britain’s Caz Walton, a 10-time Paralympic champion, looks back on transport woes, accessibility and her first gold at the Tokyo 1964 Games.

Great Britain’s Paralympic silver medallist Jade Etherington has announced her retirement, and the USA’s Tatyana McFadden completes a second Marathon Grand Slam.

The world’s fastest female blade runner is counting down the days until the next Paralympic Games in less than two years’ time.

British Athletics’ World Class Performance Programme gives extra funding and support to athletes with medal potential on the road to the Rio 2016 Paralympics.

The USA’s Joshua George, a Paralympic athletics champion, has teamed up with Olympic gold medallist Allyson Felix to help bring sport to under-privileged communities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Great British Paralympic champion Cockroft was inspired by poor dealings in the past to launch her own business venture.

Reacting to an online blog that labelled wheelchair racing “not elite sport”, US wheelchair rugby player Chuck Aoki challenges Olympians to support Paralympians to be recognised as elite athletes in the media.

The USA’s Tatyana McFadden recovered from a fall to win the New York Marathon, with Australia’s Kurt Fearnley scooping the men’s title.