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New Delhi Grand Prix: Home stars dominate show at first-ever GP in India
Paralympic stars Vanessa Low, Joeferson Marinho and home star Preeti Pal shine with gold medals in India's first Grand Prix at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium from 11 to 13 March

New Delhi Grand Prix: Preview and how to watch first-ever GP in India
Paralympic stars Vanessa Low, Joeferson Marinho, Praveen Kumar and Preeti Pal are among top names competing at India's first Grand Prix at the same venue that will host this year's World Championships in New Delhi

Debrunner celebrates Tokyo Marathon win and Laureus nomination
Swiss wheelchair racer takes her first victory in the Japanese capital and is one of the six athletes nominated for the 2025 Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability Award, which she won in 2023

Iranian athlete Sajad Mohammadian banned three years for anti-doping rule violation
Para athletics athlete returned an adverse analytical finding for a prohibited substance from an out-of-competition test

New Delhi 2025 qualification criteria and event programme released
World Para Athletics announces World Championships medal programme with 15 additional events compared to the last two editions in Kobe 2024 and Paris 2023; competition will take place from 27 September to 5 October 2025 at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium

Dubai 2025 GP: Paralympic stars Hug, Ghavelas and Wen race to gold
Seasoned stars and newcomers shine at season-opening Grand Prix over four days at the newly-renovated Dubai grounds

Dubai 2025 Grand Prix: Preview, stars and how to watch
Paralympic champions Athanasios Ghavelas, Marcel Hug and Wen Xiaoyan among the 370 athletes from 42 nations competing from 10 to 13 February in the first GP of the season at the Dubai Club for People of Determination

WPA launches Expression of Interest for 2027 World Championships and U20 Worlds
All prospective hosts have until 1 April 2025 to submit their Expression of Interest for the 2027 World Para Athletics Championships and the 2027 World Para Athletics U20 Championships

Iranian athlete Mostafa Marian receives three-year ban for anti-doping rule violation
Para athletics athlete returned an adverse analytical finding for metabolites of a prohibited substance at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

New Delhi to host 2025 Para Athletics World Championships
The world’s largest single Para sport event will take place from 26 September to 5 October 2025 at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, which will also host a World Para Athletics Grand Prix for the first time next March

Habscheid becomes first Paralympian to be named Luxembourg's Sportsman of the Year
At the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Tom Habscheid claimed Luxembourg's first Paralympic medal since 1984

Venezuelan athlete Gabriel Garcia Monsalve receives three-year ban for ADRV
Para athletics athlete returned adverse analytical findings for a prohibited substance at the Bogota 2023 Youth Parapan American Games

Mexican athlete Fernando Del Rosario receives two-year ban for ADRV
Para athletics athlete returned an adverse analytical finding for a prohibited substance at the Xalapa 2024 World Para Athletics Grand Prix

Three new stops confirmed for 2025 Grand Prix
Marrakech in Morocco, Jalisco in Mexico and French capital Paris will join next year's World Para Athletics GP

Zimbabwean athlete Clement Nyoni receives two-year ban for ADRV
Para athletics athlete returned an adverse analytical finding for a prohibited substance at the Marrakech 2024 World Para Athletics Grand Prix

Thailand athlete Prawat Wahoram receives one year ban for whereabouts violation
If an athlete fails to correctly record their whereabouts or misses a test three times in the space of 12 months, it is considered an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV), in breach of the IPC Anti-Doping Code

Romanchuk and Scaroni lead USA sweep at NYC Marathon
U.S. athletes return to the top of the podium to become the first pair from the host nation to win the New York City Marathon wheelchair division. It was Romanchuk's third title in the men's race and Scaroni's second in the women's event

Four host cities announced for 2025 Grand Prix
Dubai, Cali, Tunis and Olomouc confirmed as part of next year's calendar which will travel across four continents. Czech city will hold the first-ever all-women Grand Prix in July

Debrunner, Hug continue dominance with Chicago Marathon titles
Paralympic champions Debrunner improves her own course record while Hug wins a three-way battle for the men's wheelchair race title for the fourth time

Catherine Debrunner keeps winning streak with Berlin Marathon title
Paris 2024 Paralympic marathon champion goes back-to-back defending her title in the German capital, while Marcel Hug takes his ninth victory at the Berlin Marathon in the men's wheelchair race