Luc Percival Photography

World Ability Sports 2024 Wheelchair Fencing World Championships held in Terni, Italy. 5 days of the best fencing one could expect to see in the build up to Paris 2024.

The 2022 IWAS World Games being held in Vila Real de Santo Antonio in Portugal. 3 days of ParaSports with the up and coming younger generations - U20s - competing alongside seasoned Paralympians and Paralympic Medalists. Para-Swimming, Powerlifting and Para-Athletics.

The EDF ADN Tour is a series of handisport / disability sports adventure races held all over France. This stage of the tour took them to Le Morvan national park in the Bourgogne in the East of France. Here participants took part in orienteering, hiking, canoeing, quadrix all terrain electric wheelchair driving, archery, frisbee golf, and the big finale on the second day; white water rafting!

The French Riviera Open clay-court wheelchair tennis tournament, in Nice, follows immediately after Roland Garros. The best wheelchair tennis players in the World all descend upon the Mouratoglu Tennis Academy in Biot just next to Nice in the South of France for this prestigious tennis tournament which is contested over 1 week.

The EDF ADN Ré Tour is one stage of a whole series of exciting and fun adventure races for people with physical or mental impairments . Each stage takes participants to different parts of France where they cycle from one sporting challenge to another. Not only do they get to enjoy an extended bicycle tour of where they are, but they also take part in a variety of sporting challenges. This time, on the Ile de Ré in the Charente Maritime, the challenges were climbing, pétanque, sailing, sarbacane, molki, and orienteering.

The Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games took place in Beijing, China between the 4th March and the 13th March. In keeping with previous games there was ParaAlpine Skiing, Nordic and Biathlon, ParaSnowboard Cross and Bank Slalom as well as Wheelchair Curling (not pictured here) and Sledge Hockey (not pictured here.)

The Lillehammer 2021 World ParaSnowSports World Championships took place in January 2022. The postponement was due to the COVID pandemic. Lillehammer is a world known for the Olympic Games of 1994. This time it goes down in history for holding a world championships for all three winter ParaSports - ParaNordic / Biathlon - ParaAlpine - ParaSnowboard

Photographic coverage of the 2021 VIRTUS Swimming World Championships in Montluçon, France. VIRTUS is the global federation managing sports for athletes with intellectual impairments. This swimming World Championships are a precursor to the VIRTUS World Games being held in Vichy in 2023.

The delayed Tokyo 2020 Paralympic games were held under a state of emergency, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, one year later than planned. ParaAthletes from all over the world gathered in Tokyo to compete behind closed doors in second biggest sporting event in the World behind the Olympic Games. I was out in Tokyo as part of the French Paralympic Team photographing our athletes in action from the para-athletics in the Olympic Stadium to the Velodrome in Izu. #uneseueleequipe

Stage Jeunes à Potentiel - JAP2020 - #JAP2020 - CREPS Bourges - Youth Training Camp for aspiring Paralympians with the Federation Francaise Handisport. #handisport . This training camp happens every year, and despite COVID and the restrictions imposed to reduce transmission of the virus, the event took place featuring Fencing, Basketball, Swimming, Table Tennis, Cycling, Boccia and Athletics.

Sadly the 2020 Para Biathlon World Championships in Ostersund, Sweden, were cancelled before they really got started. None the less here you'll find a small selection of action photos from official training and then a gallery of the Crystal Globe podiums from the Para Nordic and Para Biathlon 2020 World Cup.

First slalom World Cup races of the 2020 ParaAlpine ski season in Prato Nevoso, Italy.

The World Para Athletics World Championships in Dubai 2019 are the last major championships in the buildup to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Athletes from all over the World descended upon Dubai to chase World Championship titles and also secure their places in sporting history as well as on their national teams for next year's games. An incredible two weeks of World Class athletics at the Dubai Club for People of Determination.

In 2017 the Paraplegic Hospital Centre in Nottwil, Switzerland held the first World Para Athletics Junior World Championships....which proved to be a huge success. Building upon this we returned to Nottwil for the second Junior World Championships - which was even bigger and better still! Here you'll find coverage of four days of competition during which world records were smashed by the young athletes who are shaping the future of the Paralympic Games and movement.

The final races of the World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup season took place in the picturesque and immensely popular French resort of Morzine. On the programme were two slalom World Cup races and a test event - the Team race with parallel slalom racing......

Blue skies and sunshine for the World Para Alpine skiing World Cup in La Molina. Technical events only here as the snow conditions weren't there for speed racing. La Molina is no stranger to hosting World Para Alpine Skiing events and once again came through with an excellent piste for the slalom and giant slalom races.

Last stop before the World Para Snowboard World Championships in Finland at the end of March. La Molina in the Spanish Pyrenees is no stranger to hosting Para Snowboarding World Cups and World Championships and once again have pulled out all the stops to make sure that racing took place despite the tricky snow conditions.

The 2019 World Para Alpine Skiing World Championships 21st January - 1st February - in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia and Sella Nevea, Italy. Technical events held in Kranjska Gora and speed events in Sella Nevea. If you are a team looking for a package of photos please contact me directly so that I can put one together for you.

The last job of the year. Working with the German Para Nordic and Biathlon team in Finland. We were all in Vuokatti for the 2018 World Para Nordic / Biathlon World Cup. I was there to take photos for the German team - from training to behind the scenes to competition action. What a first visit to Finland this was to be for me! :-)

2018 Spetses MiniMarathon with 3 days of sports on the beautiful island of Spetses in Greece.

World Para Athletics 2018 European Champsionships in Berlin with Paralympics Ireland. A relatively small team that packs the mightiest of punches!

The Spetses Classic Regatta is a celebration of the finest in Classic Yacht racing in Greece. Participants come from all over Europe and also as far as Australia to race. Many of the boats are steeped in maritime history and tradition and cut a beautiful sight on the crystal blue Aegean waters. #classicregatta #moetetchandon #greygoose #NOE #sportingbet #lancaster #davidoff #BIC #napapijri #sebago #saltybag #technohull #amanzoe #iwcschaffhausen #poseidonion #hellenicseasways

In March 2018 PyeongChang plays host to the Winter Paralympic Games. Here you'll find my photos for the entire adventure from beginning to end. The highs and lows of our athletes on their quest for Paralympic glory.

Tignes was the setting for the speed events of this round of the World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup. This high altitude French resort has seen 6 metres of snow fall in just the one month of January and mother nature was going to show us who was in charge this week.

World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup racing moved to the 4 Valleys resort of Veysonnaz, Switzerland. Strong winds and driving snow resulted in only one of two giant slalom World Cup races being held and only one of two slalom World Cup races taking place, too.

World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. Two giant slalom World Cup events held back to back on consecutive days on the legendary and very steep World Cup (FIS) piste just outside the village of Kranjska Gora.

The Spetses Mini Marathon is a three day festival of swimming and running races held on the picturesque Greek island of Spetses. The event, one of the largest in Greece, attracts some 6000 athletes over the weekend including a number of celebrities from the world of sport and cinema as well as other VIPs.

This year's (FFSA) French Federation for Adaptive Sports Athletics Championships took place in Nantes. Athletes from all over metropolitan France and from further afield; Martinique, La Reunion, etc.... came to compete for National titles in a wide variety of field and track events held over two days.

The Federation Francaise de Sport Adapte held the French Basket Ball championships on numerous sites around Bobigny, Bondy, Drancy and Aulnay sous Bois on the outskirts of Paris. The standard of play was impressive with the division 1 finals providing some spectacular basketball in a closely fought championships match.

Held every two years the Jeux Nationaux De L'Avenir Handisport attracts children from all over France and from further afield (Guadalope, Reunion, Martinique....) It's a fabulous festival of sports for the kids who can take part in everything from Athletics to Torball plenty of other activities to discover, too. This edition was held in the sunny maritime city of Saint Nazaire. Check it out!

For my third Paralympic Games I was a member of the CPSF France Paralympique delegation working as one of their photographers. My focus was on French athletes; our mission to document the team's performances and medals in at the #Rio2016 Games. As you know from my online archive I cover many different para-sports, but I seem to be developing a penchant towards shooting the more logistically challenging sports like sailing and triathlon! So what you see here is not a complete selection of sports from the games; rather those elements I was required to shoot as part of a team of photographers playing to its strengths to deliver images for the National Paralympic Committee of France and its partners. Indeed the highlight of the entire games for me was shooting the sailing and the triathlon, but the sailing in particular. I had two days on the water and was privileged to photograph Damien Seguin winning Gold in the 2.4R class - this is, sadly, the last time sailing is in the Paralympic Program for the foreseeable future. Hopefully it'll make a return in 2024. With regards the triathlon the opposite is true - it was the first time it made an appearance in the Paralympic Games and France's Gwladys Lemoussu went home with a bronze medal in this event. I loved shooting this sport; especially as I used to race Tri!! Nice to be on the other end of the action.

Last major judo competition before the 2016 Rio Summer Paralympic Games. Hosted at the headquarters of British Judo I worked alongside the French team during the competition and the training camp in Walsall. Both judoka Cyril Jonard and Sandrine Martinet came away with Gold medals from this event and good preparation for the games later in the year.

The Stade Louis Lumiere in Paris was the last chance saloon for 6 teams to earn one of two places at the #Rio2016 #Paralympics later this year. Favorites for spot, and number 2 in the world - USA - didn't disappoint. A fierce battle over the remaining place in Rio ensued between hosts France and the ultimate rugby rivals - New Zealand. It was touch and go as France lost their first encounter with the Wheelblacks, but not even the most intimidating Haka on the return match in the semi-finals could quel the French as the commrades in arms took the match to the Kiwis and earned their place in Rio. A truly spectacular week of wheelchair rugby which drew in the crowds! Only one thing could top this....place on the podium for Les Bleus...watch this space.

The 2016 IPC Snowboard Europa Cup Finals and a leg of the World Cup were held at Les Angles and Formigueres in the French Pyrenees. Spectacular scenery, great snow, superb boarder cross and bank slalom courses and warm welcome from the locals greeted the riders. It was largely agreed that this was the best event of the season. Les Angles is the resort of French Para-Snowboarding World Champion and Paralympic Silver Medalist Cecile Hernandez Cervellon.

The 2015 BT World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge, held in the Copper Box in the Olympic Park during the rest week of the 2015 Rugby World Cup. Otherwise known as "murder ball" it is a full contact sport with plenty of smashing and bashing! A super action sport.

Selected matches from the 2015 IWBF European Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Worcester, UK. #euro2015

Men's 1km and Women's 500m Time Trials at the 2015 UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championship in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

The stunning landscape of Surnadal, Norway is the setting for the finals of the 2015 IPC Nordic and Biathlon World Cup Finals.

Sella Nevea is a beautiful tiny resort tucked away in the North East of Italy near the mountain town of Tarvisio. Right on the border with Slovenia it is blessed with perfect snow conditions. Sella Neva is an international centre of excellence for ski-race training and this year hosted the 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing Europa Cup finals.

The 2014 World Equestrian Games took place in the French city of Caen, Normandy. The competition saw equestrian enthusiasts flock in from all over the World to see the very best cavaliers competing for world titles in a number of disciplines. Para-Dressage, the only Paralympic Equestrian discipline, was held over a few days at the hippodrome right in the heart of Caen.

The IPC 2014 European Athletics championships were held at the Singleton Park Athletics Stadium in Swansea. With great spectator support European Titles were claimed and national, European and World Records were broken in what was a very exciting week of athletics.

Action and behind the scenes at the IPC Athletics (now World Para Athletics) Grandprix in Nottwil, Switzerland. Some of the biggest names in Para Athletics were competing - David Weir, Hannah Cockroft, Marcel Hug, Brent Lakatos to name but a few.

#EuroEscrime2014 was set in the stunning city of Strasbourg in the East of France. Under stifling conditions some of the World class European wheelchair fencers gathered to battle it out over six days for individual and team championships titles.

The 2014 Sochi Winter Paralympic Games were the biggest, most watched Winter Games in history. As one of three official photographers for the International Paralympic Committee I was privileged to be tasked with photographing not only lots of winter sports but also to get behind the scenes and cover some of the stuff the general public don't get to see. In this collection you will find photographs of everything from press conferences, to the opening and closing ceremonies as well as plenty of sporting action, flower and medal ceremonies.

Just before the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games the para-snowboarders lined up in La Molina to battle it out for World Cup titles in boarder-cross. The two days of racing would point very much towards who'd be on the podiums in Sochi with one or two surprises along the way.

The beautiful town of Oberstdorf played host to the 2014 IPC Nordic Skiing World Cup. Despite the mild conditions the Erdinger Nordic centre clung on to its snow laying before the athletes some great terrain to ski on. The racing here would provide an indication on what was likely to happen in Sochi just a few months later.

Back in late 2013 I covered the IPC Sledge Hockey (now World Para Ice Hockey) qualifying tournament for the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympic Games. The tournament was held in Turin, Italy, at the Torino Bulls Ice Hockey rink. 5 days, 3 matches a day with teams from Korea, Japan, Great Britain, Sweden, Germany and the hosts Italy. The final places for Sochi were hotly contested with plenty of fast and physical play! Sometimes, though, the biggest challenge appeared to be the fog on the rink!...but maybe that was more of a problem for us photographers! NOTICE: STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION!

The 2013 IPC Athletics Championships in Lyon still rank as the best athletics championships I have photographed outside of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Despite the sweltering heat of the deadly "canicule" in Lyon that week the stadium was packed with spectators and the athletes delivered the World class sports that everyone hoped and expected to see one year on from the London 2012 Paralympic Games. This was France's Paralympic Games and a real game changer for media coverage of handisport in France. A fantastic success!

Wimbledon 2013 will always be remembered mostly for Andy Murray's title win on centre court, but for me - my first time there - it was about photographing the wheelchair tennis doubles semi-finals and finals.

The 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships were held in the Spanish Pyrenean resort of La Molina. La Molina is a leader in adaptive skiing with many of its facilities setup for the needs of disabled skiers. The snow on the competition pistes was plentiful, hard and fast for an entire week of world class alpine skiing competition.

The London 2012 Paralympic Games were, without a doubt, the best Summer Paralympic Games ever. Not only were records tumbling on the infield but also in terms of spectator number both at the venues and through the media. These games will certainly be remembered as the ones that thrust para-sports into the limelight and inspired a generation. You can search this collection on a number of keywords including athlete name, country code or the sport. Keywords appear along side the image to provide you an idea of what other selections you can make.