PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

The star US sitting volleyball player hopes a successful Parapan American Games will give the team the confidence they need to beat China at Rio 2016.

The initiative aims to support sports development activities for persons with an impairment around the world ahead of Tokyo 2020.

Reigning world champion Will Bayley will start the season at the National Championships in Bristol before heading to Italy for the Lignano Master Open.

Wohler was interim President of the Canadian Paralympic Committee from January to November 2006 and Chef de Mission for the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Paralympics

South Korea’s ice sledge hockey team is keen to win the 2015 World Championships B-Pool, in the hope of bouncing back to the A-Pool in 2017 in time for their home Winter Paralympics.

School children in the Japanese capital marked the landmark by trying out football 5-a-side with international players.

The USA sledge hockey forward received praise for his Sochi 2014 efforts ahead of next month’s World Championships in Buffalo.

The second day of competition at the 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships will see the speed races continue with world and Paralympic champions in action.

Evan O’Hanlon, Scott Reardon and Richard Colman will headline the first ever Grand Prix to take place Down Under.

Alexey Bugaev and Ivan Frantsev take world titles, as France’s Marie Bochet and Anna Schaffelhuber also seal wins at para-alpine Worlds.

May’s event is expected to attract around 3,000 athletes from 80 countries who will compete in 10 sports.

Thanks to support received from the Agitos Foundation, Rwanda expect to send an increased number of athletes to Rio 2016.

Ahead of the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Brisbane, world renowned para-athletics coach Iryna Dvoskina gives an insight into how she gets the best out of her athletes.

The world’s leading women’s wheelchair tennis player is aiming to stay top of the world in 2015.

Official Legal Partner brings legal expertise and fundraising component to Paralympic Movement

Six teams will compete at the 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships B-Pool which open on Sunday 15 March.

Canada’s Mac Marcoux took the title for the hosts as Austrian Claudia Loesch fulfilled her dream, taking her first downhill World's title.

France’s Marie Bochet and Germany’s Anna Schaffelhuber set the quickest times in the first downhill training run of Panorama 2015.

Players for Poland, South Korea, Great Britain, Slovakia, Austria and hosts Sweden have been announced.

By completing the manual the organising committee aim to accelerate its preparation for the Paralympic Winter Games