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Sports wheelchairs are lightweight pieces of apparatus tailored for individual sports. Up-to-date technology ensures the optimum speed, durability and manoeuvrability but, as with most sports equipment, wheelchairs can be costly, with prices in the UK generally in the thousands of pounds.

More and more sports now embrace wheelchair users. While most of you will be aware of wheelchair athletics, basketball and tennis, there are also chairs specially designed for sports as varied as fencing, curling and skiing.