Leading international Wheelchair Basketball players will descend on Manchester in May, as the top four male teams in the world today confirmed they will be competing in the 2010 BT Paralympic World Cup.

Just one week after leading Premiership Footballers Shay Given, Wade Elliott and Michael Duff launched the 2010 BT Paralympic World Cup, one of the world's most recognisable Paralympic athletes, Oscar Pistorius, has confirmed he will compete in this year's event.

The BT Paralympic World Cup is the largest annual international multi-sport competition in elite disability sport and yesterday leading North West football players were on hand to officially launch the 2010 event along with two big announcements: a new sport and a new team concept.

Leading North West football players including Manchester City goalkeeper Shay Given and Burnley FC players Wade Elliott and Michael Duff were on hand yesterday to help welcome Football 7-a-side to the 2010 BT Paralympic World Cup.

As 2009 comes to an end the Great British Paralympians have once again achieved amazing success, following on from a fantastic Beijing Paralympics and looking ahead to London 2012 and next year's BT Paralympic World Cup.

Next year welcomes bigger and better things for the BT Paralympic World Cup and a revamped website is just the start. The overhaul has not only made the website more visually appealing and interactive, but now offers even more accessibility to blind and partially sighted sports fans and athletes.

The BT Paralympic World Cup was created to provide an annual World Class Multi-Sport Disability Event for elite international athletes, bridging the gap between the four yearly Paralympic Games.

British Paralympic starlet Eleanor Simmonds wowed the Manchester Aquatics Centre crowd with a stunning new world record in the S6 100m freestyle as Great Britain's swimmers dominated proceedings in the pool on the final day of the BT Paralympic World Cup.

Great Britain's men ended their BT Paralympic World Cup campaign on a high by defeating Germany 69-49 to claim the bronze medal on the final day of wheelchair basketball action at the Regional Arena.

Britain's superior dominance in Paralympic cycling was put on show once again after another superb medal winning team performance on the final day of cycling in front of an energetic crowd at the BT Paralympic World Cup in Manchester.

Great Britain's track cyclists carried on from where they left off in Beijing on day two of the BT Paralympic World Cup, claiming eleven medals.

Day one of the 2009 BT Paralympic World Cup saw action from the men's and women's GB wheelchair basketball teams, with stars of the future emerging but excruciatingly close results for the women in both their matches and a disappointing loss for the men.

Competing in their first international test since the Paralympic Games, over 400 athletes from 40 countries around the world are looking to continue the impressive form they showed in Beijing as they arrive in Manchester to compete at the 2009 BT Paralympic World Cup.

Competing in their first major multi-sport international test since the Paralympic Games, 174 Paralympic medallists from around the world will be looking to continue the impressive form they showed in Beijing as they arrive in Britain to compete at the BT Paralympic World Cup.

Sebastian Coe has today lent his support to the BT Paralympic World Cup and says the event is an important stepping stone in the build up to the London 2012 Paralympic Games.