There was also an upset in the men’s standing races, as Russia’s Alexander Alyabyev took victory after Paralympic champion Alexey Bugaev failed to finish.

Ken Babey, Ron Choules and Herve Lord make up the coaching team that will take Canada to the 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships.

John Leslie and Michelle Salt will line-up alongside new team members Alex Massie and Daniel Shoemaker.

Japanese skiers are the first to arrive in Cable, Wisconsin, USA, for the 2015 IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships which open on 23 January.

Colombian athlete was laid low for much of 2014 but is now fully recovered and keen to impress

Fourteen athletes, including reigning world champions Jessica Long and Ian Silverman, make-up the A team for 2015.

Team for March’s event in the Netherlands features three reigning world champions.

Opening of the Cisco Milton Pan Am/Parapan Am Velodrome marks six months until the Games begin.

Programmes in Italy, Norway and Croatia have resulted in the establishment of two new ice sledge hockey teams, regional development and increased public awareness.

Agreement means that bidding cities for the Pan American Games are also obliged to bid for the Parapan American Games as a “host city for both Games”.

The President of the Gambian NPC hopes that the success of the festival will encourage regions to further develop para-sport.

Austria’s Claudia Loesch and Matthias Lanzinger will race in super-combined, slalom and giant slalom races on home snow in Matrei.

Historic victories for American, Dutch, French and British riders at the para-snowboard World Cup in Aspen, USA.

Canadian Paralympic Committee CEO named to list by the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity.

The awards, presented in partnership with Allianz, will recognise achievements from the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games and will be awarded in November.

Sochi 2014 gold medallist says that although US ice sledge hockey team is physically stronger ahead of the World Championships it is lacking some experience

Find out how the winner of five Paralympic gold medals at a single Paralympic Winter Games goes about preparing for competition.

Forty six German para-athletes have been included in the Top Team which provides funding for their preparation for the Rio 2016 and PyeongChang 2018 Paralympics.

Celebrating six months to go until the 2015 IPC Swimming Worlds, the competition schedule has been published.

Men’s Sochi 2014 medallists recreate podium at the para-snowboard World Cup as Heidi Jo Duce and Nicole Roundy are also amongst those to finish in the top three.