PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Rwandan para-sport develops at pace
Thanks to support received from the Agitos Foundation, Rwanda expect to send an increased number of athletes to Rio 2016.

The coach behind the champions
Ahead of the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Brisbane, world renowned para-athletics coach Iryna Dvoskina gives an insight into how she gets the best out of her athletes.

Kamiji aims to stay World No.1 on her terms
The world’s leading women’s wheelchair tennis player is aiming to stay top of the world in 2015.

Canadian Paralympic Committee and Fasken Martineau announce new partnership
Official Legal Partner brings legal expertise and fundraising component to Paralympic Movement

Fixtures for Ostersund 2015 published
Six teams will compete at the 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships B-Pool which open on Sunday 15 March.

Marcoux wins downhill gold at Panorama 2015
Canada’s Mac Marcoux took the title for the hosts as Austrian Claudia Loesch fulfilled her dream, taking her first downhill World's title.
South Africa qualify for men’s and women’s World Group II
After beating Morocco, the nation will now play in the World Group II at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup in Turkey on the 25-31 May.

Panorama 2015 to get underway with downhill
A host of Paralympic and world champions from 23 countries are ready to go for the first gold medals at the 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships.

Four historic para-swimming world records
With the World Championships fast approaching, will 2015 be the year that the oldest world records in history will be broken?

Paralympic champions fastest in Worlds downhill training
France’s Marie Bochet and Germany’s Anna Schaffelhuber set the quickest times in the first downhill training run of Panorama 2015.