PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

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

7-time Paralympian Bywater excited by wheelchair basketball growth
British wheelchair basketball player Terry Bywater is competing in his seventh Paralympic Games, and is excited to see the game growing

Japan’s wheelchair rugby team gets fairytale ending
Japan won gold in the wheelchair rugby tournament after beating the USA 48-41 at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Paris 2024: 'Rocket man' Gabriel Araujo completes his hat-trick of golds
A fans' favourite at La Defense Arena, Brazilian swimmer wins men's 200m freestyle S2 and achieves goal of improving his two victories at Tokyo 2020; Simone Barlaam beats 50m freestyle S9 world record and leads another successful evening for Italy in the pool

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: Yang Chao sets new Games record on way to first P3 gold
Chinese athlete takes his third Paralympic Games gold and first at Paris 2024 as Yan Xiao Gong gives USA their second-ever Games medal in shooting Para sport

From a Ukrainian orphanage to the Paralympic stage
Meet Oksana Kozyna and Oleksandr Chyrkov - two Para badminton players who have shared a remarkable journey to the Paris 2024 Games and owe it all to the teacher cheering them on in the stands

Rising Phoenix rapper meets ' his inspiration' Matt Stutzman
Emmy Award-winner George Doman spoke with Paris 2024 archery champion Matt Stutzman, who inspired Doman's lyrics for the title track of Paralympic Netflix documentary 'Rising Phoenix'

France goes wild for Hanquinquant’s gold
Hosts celebrate double Para triathlon glory with Alexis Hanquinquant and Jules Ribstein bagging Paralympic titles

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