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Growing Para rowing in the Americas
An international Para rowing training camp was held in Sarasota-Bradenton, USA, which was the first of its kind.

IWAS World Games 2017 host named
The Vila Real de Santo António in Portugal will host the competition later this year.

Danielle Rauen celebrates gold in front of home crowd
Brazil´s Rio 2016 table tennis bronze medallist topped the podium in the women's class 9 after beating Chile's Ailyn Espinoza 3-0 in the gold-medal match at Sao Paulo 2017.

Lopez swims in Sao Paulo, sets sights on Tokyo 2020
Mexico´s 17-year-old swimmer hopes the Youth Parapan American Games can spring board for her to the next Paralympics.

SHL, NPC Sweden form new partnership
The two will collaborate to develop Para ice hockey in the country.
Titles for Fleig, Utkin in biathlon World Cup
France’s Benjamin Daviet and Ukraine’s Oksana Shyshkova were also confirmed as overall men’s and women’s World Cup winners.

Ten Brits to look out for at London 2017
Ahead of July’s World Para Athletics Championships, here are 10 home grown talents to look out for in the British capital

SP2017: Second action-packed day set to begin
Eleven sports will be contested on Wednesday (22 March) at the Youth Parapans, with medals being decided in athletics, powerlifting, swimming and table tennis.

Romero hopes Sao Paulo 2017 can give his career a boost
The Argentinian table tennis player, who won silver at Buenos Aires 2013, believes competing at the fourth Youth Parapans will help him grow as a person and an athlete.

Para dance sport 2017 competition calendar announced
Two events will be held in Asia prior to the season-ending World Championships in October.

Gutierrez brothers celebrate at Sao Paulo 2017
Mexican swimmers Raul and Juan won gold and silver, respectively on 21 March, becoming the two first medal winners of the Youth Parapans.

Gilliver strikes double gold in Pisa
The British wheelchair fencer was among the Rio 2016 medallists to record their first wins of the season.

IBSA promotes football 5 in Ghana
A project was initiated to create a sustainable and viable programme for the sport in the East African nation.

UK Athletics publish classification review
The review into domestic classification was undertaken to ensure that UKA’s processes were fully compliant with World Para Athletics regulations.

Algerian athletes in record breaking form in Dubai
Safia Djelal set a new javelin F57 world record, 24 hours after her teammate Asmahan Boudjadar did the same in the F33 equivalent.

IPC Statement: UK Athletics classification review
UKA undertook the review from November 2016 to February 2017 to ensure that its processes were fully compliant with World Para Athletics regulations.

Mexican brothers win first two medals at Sao Paulo 2017
Raul and Juan Gutierrez took gold and silver, respectively, in the men’s 100m freestyle S6.

Game schedule, livestream announced for Gangneung 2017
All games from the 2017 World Para Ice Hockey Championships will be shown live from 11-20 April.

Draw complete for IWRF 2017 Europeans
Reigning champions Great Britain lead Pool A, while host Germany highlight Pool B.

Kononova, Wicker take biathlon World Cup titles
Competing in the middle distance in Sapporo, Japan, the Ukrainian and German skiers secured wins with one race to spare.