PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
Female players take spotlight in wheelchair rugby
The 2022 Wheelchair Rugby World Championship featured a record number of female athletes. This month, an international women’s tournament saw more than 40 athletes from 10 countries, opening a new chapter in the sport
World Series 2023: Great Britain, Brazil dominate in Sheffield
Gomes Santiago and Araujo set two world records* each as Brazil and the hosts collect 15 out of 24 golds in the third leg of Citi Para Swimming World Series
Inaugural Classification Compliance and Oversight Committee plans for the future
New chairperson is intellectual impairment specialist Professor Jan Burns, who praised the work of former Classification Committee chair Anne Hart
Paralympic champion Riech meets and races Kongssund, a teenage runner he inspired
Nate Riech received a message four years ago from 13-year-old Skjalg Kongssund, an aspiring Para runner from Norway. This month, at the Dubai 2023 World Para Athletics Grand Prix, they competed in the same race and even shared the podium
Ghana's Amos Ahiagah running, cutting hair and making brother's dreams come true
The 19-year-old balances a life of training and working in a barbershop in the hopes of making his siblings and country proud
World Series lands in Great Britain for major test ahead of Worlds
Sheffield hosts 311 athletes from 36 countries from Thursday to Sunday only 64km away from the home of this year's World Championships
IPC saddened by the passing of British Paralympic pioneer Sue Masham
The British Paralympian Baroness Sue Masham of Ilton spent a lifetime improving the lives of people with disabilities and was a champion, campaigner, and ambassador for disability rights
Citi announced as sponsor of Manchester 2023 Worlds
Biggest Para swimming event outside of the Paralympics, Worlds will take place at newly refurbished Manchester Aquatics Centre from 31 July to 6 August
Kampschreur aiming to stand on more Paralympic podiums after special walk in Beijing
Painful second-place finish at Beijing 2022 topped by memorable medal ceremony: 'I made a promise to myself – and I spread it so I would have to do it – that if I reached the podium, I was going to walk on the podium just to prove that I can do it'
World Series 2023: Araujo leads Brazil to the top in Lignano
Second Citi Para Swimming World Series of the season sees 10 new world records* set in four days of competition in Italy