PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
Jade Jones joins line up of star athletes for Sports Fest North East
Sports Fest will take place at Durham University, Great Britain on Thursday 5 March.
USTA awards grants record funds to wheelchair tennis projects
The money will be invested in 20 grassroots wheelchair tennis programmes across the USA.
Redkozubov beaten in Matrei
There was also an upset in the men’s standing races, as Russia’s Alexander Alyabyev took victory after Paralympic champion Alexey Bugaev failed to finish.
Win and forget, lose and forget
The European champion and World Championships bronze medallist talks about her move to the USA and what challenges she has faced in the past year.
Babey named Canada’s sledge hockey coach
Ken Babey, Ron Choules and Herve Lord make up the coaching team that will take Canada to the 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships.
Canadian riders set for Big White World Cup
John Leslie and Michelle Salt will line-up alongside new team members Alex Massie and Daniel Shoemaker.
One week to go: Teams begin to arrive for Cable 2015
Japanese skiers are the first to arrive in Cable, Wisconsin, USA, for the 2015 IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships which open on 23 January.
Australia name team for UCI Track World Championships
Team for March’s event in the Netherlands features three reigning world champions.
US Paralympics swimming national team named
Fourteen athletes, including reigning world champions Jessica Long and Ian Silverman, make-up the A team for 2015.
Serna targets Toronto 2015 and Rio 2016 success after illness
Colombian athlete was laid low for much of 2014 but is now fully recovered and keen to impress