PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

An outdoor blind football stadium, with the Eiffel Tower in the background

Blind football kicks off on Day 4

Blind football athletes will launch their campaigns at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, while boccia will hand out its first medals

Two athletes play table tennis on the same team, a man looks at the ball and prepares to hit it, a woman braces herself to prepare for the next play

Top medal highlights from Day 3

Chinese Para table tennis athletes Mao Jingdian and Zhao Shuai became first-ever Paralympic mixed doubles gold medallists

A female wheelchair racer leading the pack ahead of three competitors

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