Healthy and Fit for Optimal Performance
4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Evan O'Hanlon

What to watch: Day 10

Evan O'Hanlon, Tatytana McFadden and Oscar Pistorius are back at the track on Day 10, and there are finals in wheelchair basketball, wheelchair tennis and football 5-a-side.

Noam Gershony

Gold puts Gershony in tears

Upon winning the men’s quad singles title, Israel’s Noam Gershony gave his country its first wheelchair tennis gold.

Arlen and Simmonds - London 2012

Arlen puts Simmonds under pressure

The women’s 100m freestyle S6 is likely to be the face-off between defending champion Eleanor Simmonds and American world record holder Victoria Arlen.

Heinrich Popow

Popow gets his sprinting gold

Germany's Heinrich Popow slipped past Australia's Scott Reardon in the 100m T42 sprint to take the Paralympic title.

Germany's women's wheelchair basketball team

German women take title

Germany's women's wheelchair basketball team defeated Australia for gold at North Greenwich Arena.

Japan plays Great Britain - London 2012

Japan joins jostle for medals

Australia, Japan, Canada and USA booked themselves semi-final berths in their group matches on Friday (7 September) in the wheelchair rugby tournament.