Home favourite Daisuke Fujihara has reached the quarter-finals of the Tokyo 2020 Para-badminton test event, the Japan Para Badminton International.
World champion Tan Shumei was among China's gold medallists on a successful opening day for the country at the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation Wheelchair Fencing World Cup in Amsterdam.
Australia's James Turner won the men's 400 metres T36 final in a world record-breaking time on the penultimate day of the World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai.
Home favourite Daisuke Fujihara made up for his defeat yesterday by beating India's Nitesh Kumar in straight sets at the Japan Para Badminton International, the sport's test event for next year's Paralympic Games.
International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Andrew Parsons has saluted the United Arab Emirates leadership for their support of the Paralympic Movement and hailed the efforts of the Organising Committee in hosting the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai.
Two-time Paralympic champion Markus Rehm needed only the first of his six jumps to claim the men's long jump T64 title at the World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai today.
Para-badminton players expressed mixed views as they tested out the venue to be used at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, on the opening day of the Japan International.
Dutch-born athlete Elke Lale van Achterberg is bidding to move closer to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at the Wheelchair Fencing World Cup in Amsterdam.
Brazil created history with a clean sweep in the men's 100 metres T47 at the World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, clinching the top three slots on the podium.
Para-cyclist Katie-George Dunlevy has won the Outstanding Contribution to Sport prize at the Irish Post Awards.
Cuba’s sprint queen Omara Durand won a 10th global crown in as many years as she stormed to victory in the women’s 100 metres T12 final at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai.
Alice Tai has become the first Para-swimmer to be named Athlete of the Year at the British Swimming Awards.
Costa Rica retained their Blind Football Central American Championship title with a thumping 5-0 win over hosts Guatemala in the final.
Five-time Paralympic champion Hannah Cockroft won the 11th world title of her career by triumphing in the women’s T34 100 metres in Dubai.
Britain's David Hadfield has been re-elected President of the Boccia International Sports Federation (BISFed).
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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