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One of Costa Rica’s biggest sporting events has featured a Para athlete in the Opening Ceremony for the first time. The country’s only female Paralympian, Camila Haase, lit the competition cauldron for Costa Rica’s National Sport Games, on 30 June. “This is an honour...

After a four month break from competition, Italy’s Bebe Vio is one of many Paralympic champions set to compete at the International Wheelchair Amputee and Sports Federation (IWAS) Wheelchair FencingWorld Cup set for Thursday (5 July) in Warsaw, Poland. The season’s...

The UAE’s double world champion Abdulla Sultan Alaryani is aiming to perfect his craft in the 50m shooting distance ahead of the 2018 Asian Para Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, in less than 100 days. The 37-year-old is fresh off two gold medals – R7 (men’s 50m rifle 3...

The second and final day (Sunday 1 July) of the Berlin Grand Prix saw a wealth of records, world leads and high-class performances to bring the curtain down on the 2018 World Para Athletics Grand Prix season in fine style. Top of the bill for the second day running at...

Road cycling will join the sports programme for October’s Asian Para Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, following approval at the Asian Paralympic Committee’s (APC) Executive Board meeting in late June. The Board agreed the inclusion of the sport following the Organising...

World champion Andrew Lewis saw his winning streak come to an end in thrilling fashion on Saturday (30 June) as Iseo, Italy, staged its first International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Para TriathlonSeries. In the men’s PTS2, Great Britain’s Lewis – who is also the...

India’s Yogesh Kathuniya and Brazilian throwers Andre Rocha and Elizabeth Gomes were all in record-breaking form on Saturday, the opening day of competition at the Berlin Grand Prix in Germany. Two weeks after breaking the discus F52 world record at the Paris Grand...

In Colombia, Jose Richard Gallego lost the ability to see and hear at the age of nine, but his passion for football did not diminish. Fortunately, his friend Cesar Daza was able to tell him what was happening during the World Cup game, using unique hand gestures...