PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Rio 2016 preview: Women’s 400m freestyle S6
Ukraine’s Yelyzaveta Mereshko and Great Britain’s Eleanor Simmonds will fight in the race for the title.

Hug targets elusive first Paralympic gold at Rio 2016
At his fourth Paralympic Games, the Swiss wheelchair racer hopes to finally top the podium
Paralympics New Zealand initiative wins marketing award
Paralympics New Zealand took out top honours at the 2016 TVNZ New Zealand Marketing Awards, the country’s most prestigious national industry awards.

Algeria name delegation to Rio 2016
Mouloud Noura is among those to watch at the Paralympics Games.

Foundation for Global Sports Development expands support
The organisation has already played a major part in the development of Para sports and will now support education programmes for the next five years.

Para equestrian: Q&A with Emma Booth
Get to know the Australian grade II rider ahead of Rio 2016.
Training Thursdays: Greece’s Pavlos Mamalos
Aiming for a first Paralympic medal Mamalos shares his training schedule and nutrition.

First athletes arrive at Rio 2016 Paralympic Village
Athletes from Cuba, Canada, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands and China happy to move in and eager to start competing.

Monthly preview: September 2016
The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, the world’s biggest Para sport competition, will headline this month’s events.

Eight top Para athletics teens at Rio 2016
We pick out eight talented youngsters who could light up the Olympic Stadium at the Paralympic Games.