Wheelchair fencing was developed by Sir Ludwig Guttmann at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital and was introduced to the world at the Rome 1960 Paralympic Games. Men and women with amputations, spinal-cord ...

The wheelchair fencing competition will be held from Tuesday, Sept. 3 to Saturday, Sept. 7 during the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. Athletes’ wheelchairs remain in a fixed position. Fencers cannot move ...

After a stunning defeat against Xiao Rong of China and settling for bronze in individual wheelchair fencing, the star Paralympian hopes to add to her gold medal tally from the Rio 2016 and Tokyo ...

PARIS (AP) — The wheelchair fencing competition at the Paralympic Games is in full swing, taking place under the prestigious ...

Barely 16 years old, Catherine “Cat” Bouwkamp is the top-ranked female wheelchair fencer in the United States in all three blades of fencing: foil, epee, and sabre. She is currently the only ...

The big picture: Wheelchair fencing, also called parafencing, has been around since the 1960s, but it's gaining steam in the U.S, with USA Fencing hoping to expand its program before the L.A ...

Someone you’ll find at German Fencing Academy nearly every day is Coralyn “Cora” Weeks, a 12-year-old adaptive athlete who is training in parafencing, also known as wheelchair fencing.

Georgian wheelchair fencer Irma Khetsuriani on Friday claimed a gold medal in the women’s foil category at the Wheelchair Fencing World Cup held in Pisa, Italy.

Coutya is aiming to compete at his third Paralympics in Paris Britain's Dimitri Coutya and Piers Gilliver have both claimed Epee gold at the European Wheelchair Fencing Championships in Paris.