Nigeria’s Rita Ferdinard makes dream debut clinching the women’s up to 79 kg gold while Paris 2024 Paralympic medallists Clara Fuentes Monasterio of Venezuela and China's Xiaofei Gu grab world titles on opening day of Elite competitions at Cairo 2025 World Para Powerlifting Championships

Atiyehsadat Hosseini makes history winning Iran’s first-ever women’s gold in World Para Powerlifting Championships, triumphing in women’s up to 61kg category even as Uzbekistan led the Rookie & Next Gen World Championships medals standings with 13 gold followed by Armenia and I.R. Iran with four top places. Hosts Egypt finish the junior events on three gold medals.

Athletes from 70 nations begin the quest for medals and LA28 qualification as Egypt hosts the first edition of the World Para Powerlifting Championships on African soil from 11 to 18 October

120 athletes (36 female and 84 male athletes), aged 20 or younger, are competing in the Rookie & Next Gen C’ships spanned over two days for the first time. Golden starts for Uzbekistan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Ecuador and Hungary among others.

From airport welcomes to training sessions, the first arrivals in Cairo share positive impressions before the lifting begins

Five-Day WSPS European Championships features first-time winners and familiar faces in Croatia

Seven names to follow at this year’s World Para Powerlifting Championships in Egypt, the first edition to take place in Africa

The first-ever World Para Powerlifting Championships held in Africa will open with a record-breaking Rookie & Next Gen event on 9 October

Dr Peers will discuss "Empowering Paralympic Movements: from aspiration to impact" at VISTA 2025, the IPC’s scientific conference

Click below for the daily medallists of the IndianOil New Delhi 2025 World Para Athletics Championships

Para athletes from Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Ecuador, Germany, Great Britain, Iran, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Portugal, South Africa, the Netherlands and the USA top the podium in the last day of the IndianOil New Delhi 2025 World Para Athletics Championships

200m T11 win makes Brazilian sprinter her country's most successful athlete in World Championships, as Ecuador's Kiara Rodriguez claims third gold with a new world record, China bags four golds on final day, and hosts India celebrate their best-ever Worlds

The three-time Paralympic champion wins her third gold in New Delhi, competing alongside Zara Temmink, Stijn van Bergen and Lito Anker in universal 4x100m relay final; Great Britain’s Hannah Cockroft wins women’s 800m T34 final with a new championship record; Spain’s Alba Garcia Falagan claims women’s long jump T11 gold medal with a season’s best jump; Ecuador’s Kiara Rodriguez clinches fourth consecutive long jump world title winning women’s T47 final on day eight of the IndianOil New Delhi 2025 World Para Athletics Championships

Belgium, Canada, Iran, Ukraine, United States and Uzbekistan win gold medals on day eight; Brazil still hold onto their lead in the overall medal standings with 12 golds

The German legend wins men’s long jump T64 final with a jump of 8.43 and extended his decade-long championships record by 3 cm; Dutch Fleur Jong claims second gold medal in New Delhi; Catherine Debrunner completes a clean sweep of five gold medals in five events; New Zealand’s Danielle Aitchison breaks the world record in women’s 200m T36 so does Ecuador’s Kiara Rodriguez in women’s 100m T47 and India's Nishad Kumar claims maiden world title at home on the seventh day of IndianOil New Delhi 2025 World Para Athletics Championships

Germany, Iran, Thailand and the hosts India win two gold medals each on the seventh day of IndianOil New Delhi 2025 World Para Athletics Championships

Croatia hosts the ninth edition of the WSPS European Championships with plenty of Paris 2024 medallists in action until 7 October

The 31-year-old from Medellin, Colombia improves her own world record en route winning third consecutive 200m crown; Iran’s Saeid Afrooz betters own world record in men’s javelin F34 while Brazil’s Wanna Helena Brito Oliveira sets a new world record in women’s shot put F32 even as Swiss legend Catherine Debrunner claims fourth title amid bad weather conditions that delayed and postponed several events on day six of IndianOil New Delhi 2025 World Para Athletics Championships

Brazil increase their lead in the overall medal table, having claimed four titles including back-to-back 400m gold medals on the day. Para athletes from China, Italy, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, Serbia, Thailand and Uzbekistan also won gold medals on day six of IndianOil New Delhi 2025 World Para Athletics Championships.

India's Sheetal Devi, China's Wu Chunyan and Republic of Korea's Kim Ok Geum were among the biggest stars at the Para archery World Championships in Gwangju, Korea