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4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Daniela Di Toro

Australia Names Paralympic Wheelchair Tennis Team

Australia's Daniela Di Toro, the only player on the international circuit to have beaten current women's singles champion, Esther Vergeer, has been selected for the 2012 Australian Paralympic Team

Marcin Awizen

32 World-Record Holders Head to IPC Euros

Poland, Ukraine and Germany are all sending large numbers of current world-record holders to the IPC Athletics European Championships in Stadskanaal.

Australia's men's Wheelchair Basketball team

Catching up With Australia's Grant Mizens

Paralympic.org had the chance to speak with Grant Mizens, who will try to help Australia’s men’s Wheelchair Basketball team win another Paralympic gold at London 2012.

A picture of a man sit down on a basket

Is Canada's Anderson the World's Best?

Just about any Wheelchair Basketball player you ask will say that Canada’s Patrick Anderson is one of the best to have ever played the game.

Cindy Ouellet

Time for Canada's Women to Bounce Back

Cindy Ouellet - one of Canada's youngest Wheelchair Basketball players and one of the few with Paralympic Games experience - is determined to get the team back on the podium.

Great Britain's Hannah Stodel shows off her dress

British Sailors Enjoy Glamorous Send-off

More than 850 guests, including HRH Princess Royal and some of the biggest names in sailing, attended the sixth quadrennial Sa for Gold Ball to show their support for Olympic and Paralympic sailors.