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A female wheelchair racer leading the pack ahead of three competitors

Athletics

Paris 2024: Catherine Debrunner flies to gold and Paralympic record

Swiss wheelchair racer dethrones Tokyo 2020 champion Susannah Scaroni of USA to take gold in the women’s 5000m T54 final in a morning session with the first medal to hosts France, a world record to China's Zhao Yuping and Dutch long jumper Fleur Jong defending her Paralympic title

Netherlands long jumper Fleur Jong leaps to a gold medal in front of a big crowd at the Stade De France

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Big moments on Day 3

Netherlands' Fleur Jong leaps to gold in the women's long jump T64

Sareh Javanmardi takes aim in a shooting Para sport competition

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Who's going for gold on Day 3 in Paris?

From established stars like shooting Para sport's Sareh Javanmardi to new faces like Para taekowondo's Matt Bush, Day 3 is promising a whole host of podium opportunities in Paris

Three athletes in wheelchairs pose for the camera with the flags of their countries (Japan and Belgium) draped around their shoulders

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Athletes excited about huge crowd at Stade de France

Athletes expressed their excitement as Paris 2024 Para athletics competition kicked off in front of a huge crowd at Stade de France

Three men cross the finish line on an athletics track. The man in the middle screams and has his arms outstretched.

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Kashafali goes from hunger to happiness

DR Congo-born sprinter popular for his dancing gains mental strength and perspective from tough childhood

Agripinos dos Santos and his guide raise their arms in celebration

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Top medal highlights from Day 2

Agripino dos Santos claimed the first Para athletics gold of Paris 2024, setting a new world record

Three female short statures athletes showing their medals

Athletics

Paris 2024: Raoua Tlili in seventh heaven at Stade de France

Tunisian thrower cements her legendary status with a seventh Paralympic gold, and fifth in the shot put. Brazil's Julio Agripino and Colombia's Jose Gregorio Lemos set new world records in the opening session of the Para athletics programme at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Man in blue tee and shorts kneels on the badminton court holding a ring

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Big moments on Day 2

Raoua Tlili defended her gold medal in the women's shot put F41 event as Para athletics got underway

Wheelchair racer Eden Rainbow-Cooper holds up the Great Britain flag in celebration

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Rainbow-Cooper wants to smash ceilings

First British winner of Boston Marathon makes Paralympic debut in Paris

Athletics

Paris 2024: Third successive gold for Ferreira dos Santos on record-breaking evening

The Brazilian retains men’s 100m T47, world records for China's Di Dongdong in men’s long jump T11 and Tunisia's Maroua Ibrahmi in women’s club throw F32 as eight Paralympic champions were awarded in evening of day one

Wheelchair tennis player Donald Ramphabi prepares to hit the tennis ball

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Para athletics and wheelchair tennis join the party on Day 2

A multitude of Para athletics medals will be decided on day two, with wheelchair tennis and Para rowing also getting under way

Two men carry a rolled up Paralympic flag across a stage at the Opening Ceremony

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Flagbearer McFall aims for outer space

Trailblazing astronaut and Beijing 2008 Paralympic bronze medallist John McFall helped raise the Paralympic flag at the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony

A runner and his guide ahead of three other runners with guides in a race

Athletics

Paris 2024: The stars to watch on day one morning session

The largest sport of the Paralympic programme comes to Stade de France with six medal events opening the programme on Friday morning with the women's discus F55, men's 5000m T11, women's shot put F41, women's long jump T11, men's javelin F38 and women's 100m T35