PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

World champion Ahmed leads hosts’ domination at Cairo 2023 World Cup
Home team Egypt collected 14 gold medals with top powerlifters Ahmed, Elmenyawy and Elelfat emerging winners during the three-day competition

European Open Championships to return to Madeira in 2024
Portuguese island will host one of the most important Para swimming events in the lead up to the Paralympic Games from 21 to 27 April next year

Debrunner and Hug set records at 2023 NYC Marathon
Swiss wheelchair racers dominate the event with Debrunner setting new course record in her debut and Hug making history with his sixth victory

World medallists gather for Cairo 2023 World Cup
Paralympic and reigning world champion Ahmed will lead the home challenge in absence of Osman as 62 lifters from 11 nations to vie for glory

IPC mourns passing of pioneering South African athlete Zanele Situ
At the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games, she became the first black South African female athlete to win a Paralympic gold medal

Kenyan athlete Rodgers Kiprop receives three-year ban for anti-doping rule violation
Para athletics athlete returned an adverse analytical finding out-of-competition in June for the administration of an anabolic androgenic steroid

Asian Para Games: Impressive Yuyan leads hosts in Hangzhou
Eighteen-year-old world champion picks seven gold medals, more than any other athlete at the Asian Para Games in China

Asian Para Games: Stars and young talents add Hangzhou gold to collection
Exciting prospects and a very special fan join Paralympic and world champions during five action-packed days of shooting Para sport in China

Asian Para Games: China dominates track events, Sumit puts Indian on top
Chinese star Wen Xiaoyan claims hat-trick of golds and world records as host nations breaks the 200 gold medal-mark in Para athletics in Hangzhou

Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games: Top moments
The Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games saw 3,020 athletes compete in 502 medal events for six intense days in October 2023