British and Canadian Paralympic gold medallists return to action adding more titles to their collection in Italy, Sweden's ...

The object of the game is to score the most points in the opposing team’s basket. The team with the most points by the time the clock expires wins. As the name suggests, wheelchair basketball is an ...

Two weeks after the end of the most important event of the Paralympic cycle - Paris 2024 Paralympic Games - the Para Swimming ...

There have been 12 World Championships to date, with the last taking place in Basel, Switzerland, in 2019 that saw 240 athletes from 49 nations. Athletes compete in six different classes, with 63 ...

A total of 18,000 volunteers will have the opportunity to live unique moments and experience the Paralympic and Olympic ...

Winter sports for athletes with physical disabilities gradually emerged after World War II, as large numbers of injured soldiers and civilians tried to return to their skiing activities. Early ...

The 1972 Paralympics were not held in Munich, the venue of the Olympics, despite the International Stoke Mandeville Games Committee hoping for the German Disabled Sports Association (DVS) to stage the ...

While several countries withdrew from the 1976 Paralympic Games due to the participation of South Africa, amputees and vision impaired athletes were included in the programme for the first time ever.

After being presented as a demonstration sport at the Atlanta 1996 Paralympic Games, it made its debut as a medal sport at the Sydney 2000 Paralympics. Wheelchair rugby is a mixed-team sport for male ...

Cycling had the third highest number of medals contested at Rio 2016 The Paralympic competition programme includes sprints, individual pursuits, the 1,000m time trial, road races and road time trials ...