PARA ATHLETICS NEWS

Paris 2024: Frech soars to second gold at Stade de France
Promising USA star Ezra Frech won men's high jump T63 final with new Paralympic record, while fellow sprinter Jaydin Blackwell got his second Paralympic gold with another world record show in men's 400m T38 and 42-year-old Brazilian Jerusa Geber dos Santos added her first gold in Stade de France on day five

Top medal highlights from Day 6
Ihar Boki went five for five in Paris, winning his 21st Paralympic swimming gold on Day 6

Big moments on Day 6
Para athletics star James Turner smashes world record on way to gold in the men's 400m T36

Paris 2024: Durand stamps dominance with fourth successive gold
Cuban legend Omara Durand (women's 400m T12) wins her ninth Paralympic gold while Australia's James Turner (men's 400m T36) and Brazil's Yeltsin Jacques (men's 1500m - T11) defend their Tokyo 2020 title with world record shows at the Stade de France Tuesday morning

Kiribati make Paralympic debut
Vision impaired shot putter Ongiou Timeon makes tiny Kiribati proud in the nation’s first Paralympic foray

Wheelchair fencing and Para equestrian start on Day 6
Two sports – wheelchair fencing and Para equestrian – join the action on day six, one day before Italian wheelchair fencing icon Bebe Vio takes to the spotlight

Top medal highlights from Day 5
Brazil's Gabriel Geraldo dos Santos Araujo completed his mission of winning three Para swimming golds at one Games

Paris 2024: Rattana dethrones Ktila as new Paralympic champion
Thailand's Chaiwat Rattana shocks Tunisian legend Walid Ktila for first Paralympic gold in men's 100 T34, new world records for Ethiopia's Yayesh Gate Tesfaw in women’s 1500m T11 and Brazil's Elizabeth Rodrigues Gomes in women's shot put F53 even as Gloria Zarza Guadarrama win Mexico's first ever gold medal in Paris 2024 at Stade de France

Paris 2024: Guity wins battle of blade runners at Stade de France
Costa Rica's Sherman Isidro Guity wins men’s 100m T64 finals with Paralympic Games record while USA's Ezra Frech pulls off a surprise in the men’s 100m T63. India's Sumit Antil defends men's javelin throw F64 gold with two Paralympic records at Stade de France

Top medal highlights from Day 4
Para archer Jason Tabansky was a late call-up but made the most of it, winning gold

Paris 2024: Fortune wins first Paralympic gold in style on Sunday
British thrower improves her own shot put F20 world record to give her country the second Sunday gold, alongside Hannah Cockroft's fourth consecutive 100m T34 title; refugee Para athlete Guillaume Atangana makes history with bronze medal in a romantic evening session that ended with a marriage proposal

History made as Atangana wins 2nd Refugee Team medal
Personal best time in men’s 400m T11 final means a podium finish for the vision impaired sprinter and Refugee Paralympic Team flagbearer

Paris 2024: Yang Yue celebrates long-awaited shot put gold
After silver medal in four consecutive Paralympic Games, Chinese thrower finally finishes on top of the podium on a Sunday morning with another gold to China and Portugal's first Paralympic title at Paris 2024

Big moments on Day 4
Japan stun Australia in "miraculous" wheelchair rugby semi-final

Blind football kicks off on Day 4
Blind football athletes will launch their campaigns at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, while boccia will hand out its first medals

Paris 2024: Karen Palomeque leads Saturday of world records at Stade de France
Colombia makes unforgettable Paralympic debut with gold in the women’s 100m T38, while USA's Jaydin Blackwell and the Netherlands' Joel de Jong smash their own world records en route to gold in the second day of Para athletics at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Top medal highlights from Day 3
Chinese Para table tennis athletes Mao Jingdian and Zhao Shuai became first-ever Paralympic mixed doubles gold medallists

Paris 2024: Catherine Debrunner flies to gold and Paralympic record
Swiss wheelchair racer dethrones Tokyo 2020 champion Susannah Scaroni of USA to take gold in the women’s 5000m T54 final in a morning session with the first medal to hosts France, a world record to China's Zhao Yuping and Dutch long jumper Fleur Jong defending her Paralympic title

Big moments on Day 3
Netherlands' Fleur Jong leaps to gold in the women's long jump T64

Who's going for gold on Day 3 in Paris?
From established stars like shooting Para sport's Sareh Javanmardi to new faces like Para taekowondo's Matt Bush, Day 3 is promising a whole host of podium opportunities in Paris