PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Shooting joins first-ever European Para Championships
Rotterdam 2023 will distribute six quota allocations to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games at the four-day event to be held in August

Shake-ups expected at Australian Open as new Grand Slam year begins
A record 16 athletes in the men's singles draw are vying for the spotlight following Shingo Kunieda's retirement announcement
Four-time Paralympic champion Kunieda announces retirement from wheelchair tennis
Japan's Shingo Kunieda, who made his Paralympic debut at Athens 2004, won medals at five consecutive Games

Chile's Maria Antonieta Ortiz receives two-year ban for anti-doping rule violation
Para powerlifting athlete returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for a Prohibited Substance in June 2021

IPC sends condolences to family of Lithuanian goalball player Marius Zibolis
Zibolis led the Lithuanian team to two silver and a bronze medal in the men’s goalball event at the Paralympic Games

IPC welcomes adoption of EU resolution to create accessible sports infrastructure
The IPC’s Accessibility Guide is used as a reference document in the resolution ‘Council Conclusions on Sustainable and Accessible Sports Infrastructure’

Paralympic goalball champion Altunoluk targets Paris 2024, LA28 and may play to 2032
Younger sister Sevtap brings extra motivation as Turkey's goalball siblings make speeches to inspire each other

5 tips to get started in Para taekwondo from sport’s pioneer Gjessing
Denmark’s Lisa Gjessing, a gold medallist at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games and a four-time world champion, says finding a taekwondo club and communicating with your coach are important to succeed in Para taekwondo

How IR Iran became a men’s sitting volleyball superpower
"If we achieve the second place in the Paralympic competitions, it means that we have failed"

Record-breaking Paralympian Clarke appointed new Chief Executive of Paralympics GB
Clarke competed in blind football at the 2008 and 2012 Paralympic Games and scored a record 128 goals in blind football across 144 appearances for the national team