International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons has joined the tributes for Hungary's Dr. András Fejes, following his death at the age of 74.
Chilean table tennis player Matias Pino has been stripped of the gold medal he won at the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima after failing a drugs test.
Table tennis player Luis Flores has been named as the Americas Paralympic Committee (APC) athlete of the month for January.
Defending women's champion Naomi Osaka was beaten in the third round of the Australian Open today by 15-year-old United States prodigy Coco Gauff, while 38-year-old legend Serena Williams also exited the tournament.
Table Tennis Australia (TTA) has named Melissa Tapper and Jake Ballestrino as co-captains of their national Para-squad for 2020.
Britain's Will Bayley has claimed that defending his title at next year's Paralympic Games in Tokyo is more important than anything else after pulling out of Strictly Come Dancing.
Britain's Paralympic gold medallist Will Bayley has been forced to pull out of Strictly Come Dancing with an injury less than a year before Tokyo 2020.
France's Rio 2016 Paralympic Games champion Fabien Lamirault, winner of the class 2 men's singles at the Para European Table Tennis Championships in Sweden, completed a golden double, as he and partner Stephane Molliens won the team title with a 2-0 win over Serbia.
Poland's pairing of Rafal Czuper and Tomasz Jakimczuk, who defeated the class 1-2 second seeds Rasul Nazirov and Dimitry Lavrov of Russia 2-0 on the first day of team competition at the Para European Table Tennis Championships in Sweden, have reached tomorrow’s semi-finals, where they play Serbia.
The first of three concluding days of team competition at the European Para Table Tennis Championships took place at the Helsingborg Arena in Sweden, following the end of individual matches.
Fabien Lamirault of France recovered from a faltering start at the Para European Table Tennis Championships in Sweden to claim the class 2 title – and the Tokyo 2020 place on offer to all gold medallists.
Day two of the Para European Table Tennis Championships in Sweden produced varying fortunes for Britain as two of their global champions were defeated, but David Wetherill beat Spain's top seed and defending champion in class 6.
A total of 312 players have assembled in Helsingborg in Sweden to contest the European Para Table Tennis Championships that start tomorrow – with a place in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics on offer to men's and women's champions.
Paralympic gold medallist Will Bayley has signed up for BBC reality show Strictly Come Dancing for the coming series this autumn.
Indonesia collected three team titles on the final day of action at the International Table Tennis Federation Asian Para Championships in Taichung in Chinese Taipei.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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