PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Sochi build up begins in New Zealand and Australia
New Zealand’s Paralympic champion and Team GB’s Heather Mills among stars set to shine at Audi quattro Winter Games NZ 2013.

Lyon 2013 – Day six preview
April Holmes, Marie-Amelie Le Fur, Marlou van Rhijn, Marcel Hug, and Alan Fonteles Oliveira are all in action at IPC Athletics World Championships.

French NPC donate low cost equipment to six countries
Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Rwanda, Senegal and the Central African Republic all set for low-cost racing chairs

Lyon 2013 - Day six evening review
McFadden the master as she wins her fourth and fifth world titles.

Lyon 2013 - Day seven morning review
Ni Ma wins second gold medal of the Championships.

Czech sledge team not getting any younger for Sochi
Ahead of the Sochi 2014 Test Event, the Czech Republic’s ice sledge hockey team realise the next Paralympics could be their last together as a core group.

Promising Irish team heading to Montreal
Six athletes, all from London 2012, return to international competition at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Champs.

Lyon 2013 - Day six morning review
South Africa's Ilse Hayes won the long jump F13 and Canada's Michelle Stilwell claimed gold in the 800m T52 race at the IPC Athletics World Championships.

USA announce Sochi 2014 ice sledge hockey roster
Steve Cash, Josh Pauls and Taylor Chace are among the names who made it on to the USA’s roster for Sochi 2014.
Lyon 2013 - day six athlete quotes
Read what the athletes had to say after they came off the track and field