The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has invited entities interested in becoming Para athletics and Para swimming governing bodies to hold engagement meetings before the deadline for a request for proposal (RFP) of April 22 2022.

Canada's three-time Paralympic gold medallist Danielle Campo McLeod has undergone emergency surgery after health complications following the birth of her daughter Morgan at Windsor Regional Hospital.

Double Paralympic champion Stephanie Millward has announced her retirement from swimming after a glittering career.

British Paralympic swimming gold medallist Ellie Robinson has announced her retirement at the age of 20, following an injury-stricken campaign at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.

South Africa's former Paralympic Games medallist Achmat Hassiem is in a coma at a hospital in the Western Cape region after recently undergoing surgery.

Five-time Paralympic swimming champion Ellie Simmonds of Britain has confirmed her retirement from the sport.

Jessica Long claimed the 16th Paralympic gold medal of her illustrious career on the final day of swimming action at Tokyo 2020.

The United States' Morgan Stickney pulled off a fantastic last leg in the 4x100 metres women's medley relay - 34 points race to win gold to round off the evening of swimming at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at the Aquatics Centre.

Azerbaijan’s Vali Israfilov has credited American rap star Nicki Minaj for helping him to win his first Paralympic gold after he stunned five-times champion Oleksii Fedyna of Ukraine at Tokyo 2020.

Morgan Stickney of the United States overhauled 14-time Paralympic champion Jessica Long with a gutsy final 50 metres to clinch women’s 400 metres freestyle S8 gold - two years after having her second leg amputated - at Tokyo 2020.

China celebrated gold medal success in five races as Paralympic swimming competition continued at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, as Belarus' Ihar Boki maintained his individual dominance at Tokyo 2020.

Belarus' Ihar Boki claimed his fourth gold in as many swimming at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games here today, with a win in the men's S13 50 metres freestyle final.

Yevhenii Bohodaiko and Maksym Krypak led a Ukrainian gold-medal charge at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre as the nation saw five of its athletes top the podium today at the Paralympics.

Belarus' Ihar Boki has set his sights on matching his gold-medal tally of six achieved at Rio 2016 after winning three titles in as many days at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games here.