RIO DE JANEIRO (CNN) – A poignant and defiant Rio 2016 Paralympics closing ceremony celebrated Brazil, the strength of the human spirit and diversity while stylishly handing the baton over for Tokyo ...

Brazil's Fernando Rufino de Paulo is looking for more success at the 2026 Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe World Championships in ...

MOSCOW, September 5. /TASS, Yevgeny Ionov/. With less than two days remaining before the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games kick off, the International Paralympics Committee (IPC) guarantees that hosts Rio ...

Rio 2016's organising committee has confirmed that its appeal against an injunction blocking the release of public funding to pay for the Paralympic Games has been successful. Last week judge Marcia ...

Great Britain's Kadeena Cox celebrates with her Gold medal won in the Women's C4-5 500m Time Trial final at the Olympic Veleodrome during the third day of the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games in Rio de ...

For the US Sailing Team, the Paralympics are off to a strong start. In the 2.4mR, Dee Smith is currently in third overall, with a 7 and 1 on his scorecard. “In the first race, I didn’t get off the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – To rousing cheers and a standing ovation, two para-athletes who faced the additional challenge of being displaced from their homeland made history on Wednesday leading the ...

The three Paralympic sailing classes will contest their regatta on the same waters where the Olympics took place in August. They will make use of three of the race courses: the Escola Naval course, ...

Russia's athletes will continue to prepare for the 2016 Paralympic Games despite the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) implementing a blanket ban. Allegations of state-sponsored doping made in ...