Recent Reports

Filled with adrenaline, all five winners on Saturday tried to understand what just happened when they each crossed the finish line on a historic day of the 2019 World Para Snowboard Championships in Pyha, Finland. Four-way races in snowboard-cross were witnessed at a...

Rio 2016 Paralympic bronze medallist Rebeca Valenzuela Alvarez has made an impressive start to an important athletics season. The Mexican field athlete set an Americas record* of 13.15 in the women’s shot put F12 on her way to gold at the Dubai Grand Prix in February....

Jack Shephard and Krysten Coombs are Para badminton’s world and British No. 1 and No. 2 in the men’s singles SS6. But they know they may be battling for just one place when badminton makes its Paralympic debut at the Tokyo 2020 Games. “There’s only likely to be one of...

Finnish men’s goalball coach Jarkko Pokkinen and his team may have been out of the limelight since 2017 but, this year, they are firmly focused on making it their most successful yet. Pokkinen’s side managed to stay in the A pool when they hosted the European...

When day one of the 2019 World Para Snowboard Championships wrapped up Wednesday in Pyha, Finland, it was as if Maxime Montaggioni was never gone. The Frenchman returned to the top of the men’s SB-UL banked slalom podium, retaining his title from two years ago. But...

Italy’s latest Para swimming superstar Simone Barlaam has an admirably simple recipe for success: “my aim is just to have fun”. It has worked so far. The Milan native may only be 18 years old but he is already a two-time world champion, a four-time European champion...

Indonesia targeted to enter the semifinals at the 3rd Asia Pacific Deaf Futsal Championships slated for this week in Thailand, a minister said here on Thursday. Youth and Sport Minister Imam Nahrawi said the Indonesian team needs to meet the target as a prerequisite...

Over 25 countries are expected to converge in Nairobi for this year's Africa Deaf Athletics championship, which will run from Sept. 16 to 22. It will be the first time that Kenya will be staging the competition, aiming to get the stadium full to capacity and recreate...