A Para-ice hockey team made up of talented tier one players will represent Calgary Flames at the upcoming USA Hockey Sled Classic in St. Louis, it has been announced.

Dutch Para Alpine skier Barbara van Bergen has set her sights on qualifying for the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing, where she made her Games debut in wheelchair basketball in 2008.

A new grant awarded to the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation (USBSF) is to be used to help American veterans prepare for bobsleigh's debut on the Paralympic programme.

World Curling Federation President Kate Caithness has praised China’s gold medal winning-Paralympic wheelchair curling squad after they were won Best Team Performance Award at the 2019 Paralympic Sport Awards.

Russian Georgy Kadykov has been announced as race director for World Para Nordic Skiing for the 2019-2020 season.

Canadian Para-ice hockey player Ryan Straschnitzki features in a newly-released Adidas advert having signed a three-year contract with the major sportswear manufacturer earlier this year.

Paralympic champions Andrew Kurka and Laurie Stephens have been named in the United States Paralympics Alpine skiing team for the new season. 

Altenberg and Dresden in Germany will host the first joint World Cup event between the International Ski Federation (FIS) and World Para Nordic Skiing in January next year. 

The Norwegian Sliding Sports Federation (NABSF) has announced plans to host a Para bobsleigh school in Lillehammer ahead of the World Cup season.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has suspended South Korean Para-ice hockey player and Paralympic medallist Yu Man-gyun for six months for an anti-doping violation.

Berlin has been announced as host of the 2019 World Para Ice Hockey Championships B-Pool.

Russian cross-country skier Nadezhda Fedorova, a member of the neutral team at last year's Winter Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang, has been given a four-year doping ban.

Alpine Canada has nominated 55 athletes to its national Alpine, Para-Alpine and ski cross teams for the 2019-2020 season – a special year for the organisation as it prepares to celebrate 100 years of ski racing in the country.

Swedish Para Sport Federation and Swedish Paralympic Committee secretary general Johan Strid has expressed his delight at Östersund being chosen to host the 2020 World Para Biathlon Championships.