Natalie Du Toit

Though there are still challenges, parasport champions are breaking records on the track and in boardrooms

The story of the boxer carrying the hopes of his father is a complicated one

Sascoc says paralympic athletes will earn the same bonuses their able-bodied counterparts received on their triumphant return from the London Games.

Team South Africa bagged their first gold medal of the London Paralympic Games when Natalie du Toit won the women’s 100m butterfly S9 final.

The Paralympics begin in London today, and while the Games mark Natalie du Toit’s swan song, SA’s young Paralympians are ready to take up her mantle.

The 2012 Paralympic Games are due to begin in London on Wednesday, with Natalie du Toit and Oscar Pistorius leading the South African charge.

The world’s top athletes with a disability meet in London next week for what organisers say will be the biggest Paralympics in the Games’ history.

Oscar Pistorius and Natalie du Toit have been earmarked to head the country’s team when Sascoc marked the 100-day countdown to the Paralympic Games.

Swimming champion Natalie Du Toit has won the annual Laureus Disability award, Sascoc said on Wednesday.

Natalie du Toit on Monday said she was eyeing London 2012 after winning five Paralympic golds and competing in the Beijing Olympics.

Natalie du Toit snared her fifth gold medal of the Paralympics on Sunday in an event 9,950m shorter than the race she took part in at the Olympics.

SA Olympic swimmer Natalie du Toit bagged her fourth gold of the Paralympics on Friday, leaving her just one short in her quest for five titles.

It took only three days of the Para­lympics to transform the disgruntled faces of South African sports fans into broad grins.

Olympian Natalie du Toit grabbed her third gold of the Paralympics on Thursday on a day tarnished by more doping scandals

SA’s Natalie du Toit smashed her own world record on Thursday to grab her third gold of the Paralympics.