Paralympic history

Trischa Zorn-Hudson has won 55 Paralympic medals

In 1960, the first Paralympic Games took place

The inventor of the Cheetah Foot on the accident that led him to revolutionise para-sport

The American serviceman who won swimming glory a year after being blinded by a bomb

The shot-putter with dwarfism whose gold medal celebration went viral on social media.

The Polish table tennis champion who began her Paralympic career aged just 11.

How the visually-impaired skier from Northern Ireland won Team GB's first Paralympic gold

The blind athlete who competed in both the winter and summer Paralympic games.

How the British wheelchair racer won her greatest victory at the 2004 Paralympic Games

The story of Nigeria's most successful female paralympian.

Two athletes from Finland and Britain remember the inaugural Winter Paralympics in 1976.

In 1972, war veteran Murlikant Petkar won India's first Paralympic gold medal

Bibian Mentel-Spee campaigned for her event to be in the games, then won the first Gold.

How blind runner, Henry Wanyoike, set world records and won Paralympic golds.

In 2012, Rwanda's sitting volleyball team became their country's first Paralympians.

The racing driver who suffered a horrific crash, but then became a successful Paralympian

The cancer patient who inspired Canada with an attempt to run across the country in 1980