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The New Zealand Paralympic team have started day three of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games with completion of two finals and qualification for more this evening BRT.

Nine days before the Kiwi Paralympian won silver at Rio, her training partner passed away.

New Zealand athletes are on the way to earning the 18 medals targeted at the Paralympics after collecting four within an hour.

The Rio 2016 Paralympic committee has been slammed for asking everyone to stand for the anthem during the opening ceremony.

The New Zealand Paralympic Team have continued day 2 of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games as they started with an outstanding morning in Rio.

New Zealand is on the medal table on the first day of the Rio Paralympics with a gold and a bronze won today.

Kiwi cyclist Kate Horan has been edged out of the medals at the Rio Paralympics after finishing second in the bronze medal ride in the 3km pursuit C4 event.

Paralympian Holly Robinson's grandparents "cried tears of joy" when they woke to the news yesterday that she would be leading the New Zealand Paralympic team in Rio.

Aaron Fotheringham produced the highlight of the opening ceremony at the 2016 Rio Paralympics this morning.

The New Zealand Rio 2016 Paralympic Team marched out alongside 4,350 athletes from 160 countries.

A Paralympic star from Belgium is considering ending her life after the Rio Games, because her health problems have become so bad.

Holly Robinson has been selected to lead the New Zealand Rio 2016 Paralympic Games Team into the Maracana Stadium tomorrow. The announcement

Fingers are crossed that all will be well when the paralympic games open in rio tomorrow (nzt).

Here are 5 Kiwi athletes to watch at Rio Paralympics.

Countries arriving in Rio for the Paralympics have been forced to clean "grimy" apartments in the Athletes Village and arrange their own transportation during the Games.

For most athletes, an Olympic career might last 12 years. For Libby Kosmala, it's more like 44.

Vogue Brazil has been slammed for using Photoshop trickery on their paralympic models in a controversial editorial.

NZ will still send a full team to compete at the Paralympic Games despite news of countries missing out because of a lack of money for the event.

The systemic Russian doping scandal is not deterring two of the country's Paralympic champions from defending their titles at Rio.

New Zealand has rounded out its team for the Rio Paralympics with the selection of two further para-athletes.

Paralympian Cameron Leslie certainly kept the best for the last as the final Kiwi to swim on day two of the IDM German Open.

The former SAS corporal, who was awarded the Victoria Cross in 2007, is once again lending his patronage to the Kiwi military paralympic team.

See how our Kiwi athletes are doing at Rio The Paralympic Games start on Sept 8. To find out how the Kiwis rank against the rest

A new song to mark today's Day of People with Disability also aims to give our Paralympians a rousing anthem for next year's Rio games.

German long jumper Markus Rehm, who wants to compete against able-bodied athletes, took gold at the World Paralympics Championships yesterday.

The progression of paralympic athletes into the mainstream sporting coverage is a key aim of chef de mission Ben Lucas in the countdown to Rio.

Paralympics NZ will today launch its awareness and fundraising initiative, Spirit of Gold, at a public event. David Leggat reports.