PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Australian Curtis McGrath continues golden legacy
Australian Curtis McGrath has won his third consecutive gold medal in the men’s kayak

Indonesia impress on Paralympic boccia debut
Medals galore for Indonesia at Paris 2024 in their first time competing in boccia, as all four of the team land on the podium in their first Games

Refugee Team leaves with historic medals and lasting legacy
Zakia Khudadadi and Guillaume Junior Atangana dedicate Paralympic podiums to ‘refugees around the world’

IPC recognises representatives for success of Paralympics
Paralympic Games Appreciation Awarded given to organisers and supporters of Paris 2024

Top medal moments on Day 10
Rayane Soares da Silva of Brazil smashes 29-year-old record on the track

Paris 2024: Fitting farewell for Durand, Caironi on dramatic evening
Cuba's Omara Durand made it golden treble winning women's 200m T11 finals, while Martina Caironi won her first gold since Rio 2016 - clinching women's 100m T63 final after Tokyo 2020 Paralympic champion Ambra Sabatini fell colliding with Monica Graziana Contrafatto who was subsequently awarded joint bronze medal at Stade de France on day nine

Barlaam reunited with Paris surgeon who saved his leg
Italian Para swimmer wins Paris 2024 gold on Friday watched by the man who performed revolutionary operation on him as a teenager

Blind football history will be written on Day 10
Day 10 of Paris 2024 promises must-watch action in blind football, wheelchair tennis and Para swimming among many other key moments

Iran claims eighth men's sitting volleyball gold
A 3-1 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina gave Iran their eighth Paralympic men's sitting volleyball gold medal, with Morteza Mehrzadselakjani leading Iran in points

Paris 2024: Hunter Woodhall claims first gold medal at Paralympic Games
USA sprinter triumphs in the men's 400m T62 and celebrates with wife Tara Davis-Woodhall who won Olympic long jump gold in the same Stade de France few weeks ago; China breaks the 4x100m universal relay world record en route to gold with Woodhall helping USA take bronze in the event

Paris 2024: Gustin, Rostami, Mark and Yujiao shine with world records
Malaysia's Bonnie Bunyau Gustin improves own world record enroute to retaining Paralympic gold so does China's Tan Yujiao and Iran's Roohallah Rostami; Nigeria's Onyinyechi Mark win gold in debut Games; Mexico's Amalia Perez becomes most medalled athlete in Para powerlifting history with seven medals at La Chapelle Arena of day four

Emotional Kamiji clinches gold in memorable wheelchair tennis final
Japan's Yui Kamiji defeated Dutch wheelchair tennis player Diede de Groot to earn her first women's singles Paralympic title

New IPC Athletes’ Council elected
Six members elected (four women and two men) including an athlete with intellectual impairment for the first time

Nigeria's Mark debuts with historic gold and record
Para powerlifting star broke the world record twice in her Paralympic debut

Legend Osman on LA 2028 and big ambitions
The powerlifter says “Los Angeles is waiting for me” after missing out on Paralympic podium in France

Mega fan vows to always 'show up' for Paralympic Games
Kiratiana Freelon tried to attend every Paralympic sport at Paris 2024, and nearly made it

Paris 2024: De La Forest wins first Paralympic gold, and the hearts of a nation
Frenchman takes his first Paralympic medals with gold and silver in front of the home crowd in his sixth Games participation, South Korea tops the medal table as shooting Para sport action concludes at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre

Support in the stands the difference for Nicholson
British Para athlete claims debut Paralympic medal in front of friends, three years after ‘sterile’ Tokyo experience

IPC President meets NRW Premier at Paralympics
North Rhine-Westphalia is home to International Paralympic Committee’s headquarters

Top medal moments on Day 9
Hunter Woodhall wins first Paralympic gold, finishing ahead of world record holder Johannes Floors in men's 400m T62