LATEST PARA ATHLETICS NEWS

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

Best Para athletics moments of Paris 2024
The USA’s Hunter Woodhall won his first Paralympic gold medal and celebrated with his wife and Olympic champion Tara Davis-Woodhall

Incredible Indian athletes make their mark in Paris
India bagged 29 medals at Paris 2024 for their most successful Paralympic campaign ever

Paris 2024 review: 'Mission accomplished' as China dominate with 21 gold medals
Wen Xiaoyan collects four golds and leads Chinese Paralympic Games success, Switzerland's Catherine Debrunner becomes first female athlete to claim five titles and Cuba's Omara Durand brings the curtain down on an illustrious career by claiming triple gold at Stade de France

The world records that tumbled in Paris
More than 40 world records tumbled in Para athletics alone at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Top medal moments on Day 11
Para powerlifter Oluwafemiayo breaks world record not once, but twice, to win women's over 86kg gold

Paris 2024: Debrunner wins marathon to take fifth gold of the Games
Swiss wheelchair racer becomes most successful Para athletics athlete of this year's Paralympics, Hug adds more gold to Switzerland in the men's marathon T54 as Morocco's Fatima El Idrissi sets new world record and Tunisia's Wajdi Boukhili beats three-time champion Chentouf, respectively in the women's and men's T12