Britain’s three-time Paralympic champion Hannah Russell has announced her retirement from swimming and wants other visually impaired swimmers to emulate her performance.

Para surfing camps of the PlayLA Adaptive Youth Sports programme came to a close with the United States Para surf champions Liv Stone and Sarah Bettencourt featuring in the final event.

Four of the world’s top wheelchair athletes, all of whom are set to contest the TCS London Marathon on Sunday (October 2), today hailed its increased prize money and also the new equality of rewards from Abbott World Marathon Majors (WMM) for series winners.

The Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) and the Indian Army have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in a bid to provide opportunities for wounded soldiers to participate in Para sport.

The Sport Ireland Institute has been named the "official performance partner" for Ireland’s Paralympic team in an agreement which officials claim will result in a "cohesive and united" team support unit for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Retail company Decathlon, a Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games official partner, has recruited 33 sports people to be part of its "Team Athletes" initiative.

Brazil have been crowned champions of the inaugural International Handball Federation (IHF) Four-a-Side Wheelchair Handball World Championship.

Paralympians Sadegh Bigdeli of Iran and Heidi Peters from Canada have been elected to the World ParaVolley Athletes' Commission.

More than 70 Para sport representatives met in Siegburg to learn more about the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) ongoing review of the Athlete Classification Code and provide feedback on its first draft.

Chile and Slovenia are set to meet in the bronze medal match at the inaugural International Handball Federation (IHF) Four-a-Side Wheelchair Handball World Championship in Egypt.

Hosts Egypt and Brazil have qualified for the final of the inaugural International Handball Federation (IHF) Four-a-Side Wheelchair Handball World Championship.

New dates in June 2023 have been set for the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) World Championships.

Four-time Paralympic handbike champion and ex-Formula 1 (F1) driver Alex Zanardi, who sustained serious head injuries in a June 2020 crash, has been discharged from a Vicenza hospital 76 days after a solar-panel fire knocked out his rehabilitation machines at home.

Egypt won both of its games on the opening day of the inaugural International Handball Federation (IHF) Four-a-Side Wheelchair Handball World Championship.

The members of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletes' Council, elected at Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022, met in-person for the first time at the IPC headquarters in Bonn.