PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

For the first time, WPPO will stage World Championships in three consecutive years; Bahrain 2026 will mark the 12th edition of the event and the eighth to be held in Asia

Iran’s Aliakbar Gharibshahi and Nigeria's Folashad Oluwafemiayo improve their own record to win world titles; two-time Paralympic champion Abdelkareem Khattab clinch his third world title at the Cairo 2025 World Para Powerlifting Championships

• EBU Members to deliver broad free-to-air coverage across all of continental Europe (with the exception of Italy and the United Kingdom) • Warner Bros. Discovery to broadcast daily highlights from the event across Europe. • EBU’s most comprehensive digital coverage of the Paralympic Winter Games to date

The Paris 2024 gold medallist wins first Worlds title at home, in a new weight category - women’s up to 61kg category- after recovering from a chest injury; China's Cui Jianjin breaks world record twice before clinching her first international gold Turkiye’s Abdullah Kayapinar dethrones two-time Paralympic and world champion Omar Qarada for his first World Championship gold on Day five of Elite competitions in Cairo

China's two-time Paralympic champion Lingling improves her own world record of 124 kg by one kilogram for first world record in Cairo and her fifth title; her compatriot Cui Zhe clinches fifth world title too with women’s up to 41kg gold while Kazakhstan’s Paris 2024 champion David Degtyarev extends dominance in men’s up to 54 kg on the fourth day of the Elite competitions at the Cairo 2025 World Para Powerlifting Championships

Multiple-time Paralympic champion Tan Yujiao wins her first world title in a new weight category - women's up to 73 kg; Malaysia's Paralympic champion and world record holder Bonnie Bunyau Gustin conquers again in men's up to 72 kg; China's newcomer Zhou Shiwei strikes world title at international debut on the third day of Elite competitions at the Cairo 2025 World Para Powerlifting Championships

Relocation from Melbourne will provide Australian and international Para swimmers the chance to experience outdoor conditions as they prepare for the 2028 Paralympic Games in Los Angeles 

Paris 2024 champion Mohamed Elmenyawy wins his first World Championships title at home; reigning Paralympic champion Yan Panpan of China beats Iran's Roohallah Rostami in a close contest for men's up to 88 kg gold; Rio 2016 silver medallist Esther Oyema of Nigeria clinches her first World Championships in 11 years on the second day of the Elite competitions at Cairo 2025 World Para Powerlifting Championships

Nigeria’s Rita Ferdinard makes dream debut clinching the women’s up to 79 kg gold while Paris 2024 Paralympic medallists Clara Fuentes Monasterio of Venezuela and China's Xiaofei Gu grab world titles on opening day of Elite competitions at Cairo 2025 World Para Powerlifting Championships

Atiyehsadat Hosseini makes history winning Iran’s first-ever women’s gold in World Para Powerlifting Championships, triumphing in women’s up to 61kg category even as Uzbekistan led the Rookie & Next Gen World Championships medals standings with 13 gold followed by Armenia and I.R. Iran with four top places. Hosts Egypt finish the junior events on three gold medals.