Lucy Shuker has defied the odds to become a top wheelchair tennis player, after being told she was "too disabled" to compete among the world's best.

One of the events is wheelchair fencing. Anri Sakurai is a wheelchair fencer vying to take part in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. Sakurai was a long-distance runner in high school. She aspired to be ...

Joachim Gerard was Belgium’s flagbearer at the Paris Paralympics opening ceremony on Wednesday, 28 August, three years after suffering a heart attack. The wheelchair tennis athlete had competed ...

Grit: arguably, tennis’ most valued attribute ... Stroud had hoped to compete at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, which were originally scheduled to start in late August.

The teams: Teams of two players compete in the doubles and mixed doubles events. Otherwise, wheelchair tennis is an individual sport, so competing for gold is done alone! The match: There are six ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Esther Vergeer, the retired Dutch wheelchair tennis star who had a winning ... Vergeer is the leader of the Dutch team for the Tokyo Paralympics Games, which ...

Para table tennis, Para taekwondo, Para triathlon, and wheelchair fencing. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has confirmed the six athletes who will represent the Refugee Paralympic Team ...

Tokyo Paralympics organizers opened a repair ... 5--will include swimming, table tennis, wheelchair fencing and basketball. Over 4,000 athletes with various impairments will participate.

Japan’s Yui Kamiji struck gold in the women’s wheelchair tennis singles at the Paris ... De Groot defeated Kimiji in the event at the Tokyo Paralympics in 2021. This is the fourth ...