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 ...

Back then, the Tokyo 2020 silver medallist could hardly have ... Beyond the titles and accolades, wheelchair tennis has also brought the 44-year-old immense happiness. "It's been huge," she ...

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 Dutch have long dominated the wheelchair ... tennis; Oda against Britain's Alfie Hewett in a rematch of last year's final and Kamiji against Aniek Van Koot of The Netherlands, a rematch of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...