Ever since, he's been a wheelchair user himself. A runner in high school and the Army before the accident, Cooper wasn't ready to let being a paraplegic keep him from his passion for racing while ...

Also racing down the ... after a successful stint in wheelchair basketball dating back more than two decades. Gaertner, who then represented Canada, won gold medals on the hardwood at the Sydney 2000 ...

winning the T34 100m title at her fourth consecutive Paralympics. Cockroft burst onto the scene winning gold in the showpiece women’s wheelchair event in London 12 years ago and has repeated the ...

"We're absolutely delighted that there will be seven wheelchair curlers going to the Paralympics next year. "It's opened up a whole lot more competition within our squad and hopefully this will ...

Tatyana McFadden has had a tremendous year: After taking home 3 golds and a bronze in wheelchair racing in the 2012 ... for the Nordic team at the 2014 Paralympics. But like most of the Nordic ...

His Imperial Highness Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko oversaw the Tokyo 1964 Paralympics which drew together 378 Para athletes from 21 countries. In total there were 144 medal events across nine ...

Currently studying a Bachelor of Architecture at Auckland University of Technology, Wright, 20, has shifted her focus to qualifying for the 2028 Paralympic Games in wheelchair racing. And she is ...

The 1988 Paralympics marked the first time in 24 years the Paralympics ... Mustapha Badid of France established himself as the champion of men’s wheelchair racing with gold medals in the 200m, 1,500m, ...

That small insight inspired him to take up wheelchair racing and he has seen great ... to win in 2017 after what happened in Rio (at the 2016 Paralympics, where he failed to medal) was a big ...

Nine years after a common cold left her paralysed, Gabby Wright has defied all the odds, officiating netball matches in a ...