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US track and field team named for Toronto 2015
Sixty athletes and four guides to represent Team USA at August’s Parapan American Games.
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#SuperheroSunday: Rachael Morrison
The US thrower only took up para-sport in 2014, but already is a world record holder and favourite to win a world title later this year.
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New mother Castillo targets further medal success
The Cuban Paralympic and world champion sprinting is gearing up for a busy few months with the Toronto Parapan American Games and the World Championships.
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Ten things we’ve learned from the athletics season so far
The 2015 para-athletics season has been spectacular so far and is set to get even more exciting as we approach October’s World Championships in Doha, Qatar.
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Faces of the future: Brazil’s Veronica Hipolito
After winning the 200m world title in 2013, the Brazilian T38 sprinter said her life changed forever.
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Norman and Pruitt break distance world records in Indianapolis
Norman breaks 10-year-old women’s 800m T44 record by 10 seconds.
![Russia’s world, Paralympic and European long jump T38 champion Margarita Goncharova, gives an insight into her three heroes.](/sites/default/files/images/150626115058915_28%2Bjun%2B2015.jpg)
#SuperheroSunday: Margarita Goncharova
After breaking the long jump T38 world record last week in Berlin, Germany, the T38 athlete shares with us her three heroes.
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The 2015 IPC Athletics Grand Prix series in numbers
After nine Grand Prix, five continents and hundreds of races and events, here is a review of the season so far in numbers.
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Throwback Thursday: Australia’s Louise Sauvage
The nine-time Paralympic gold medallist is harvesting a breed of athletics champions in her home country.
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#WorkoutWednesday: Richard Browne
The 100m and 200m T44 world record holders guides us through his average training day.
Records fall on final day of US Track and Field National Championships
One world, American and four Americas records highlight day three in Minnesota.
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IPC Athletics Media Advisory
Media accreditation for the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar, now open
![Finland’s world, Paralympic and European 100m T54 champion Leo-Pekka Tahti, gives an insight into his three heroes.](/sites/default/files/images/150611101612634_14%2Bjun%2B2015.jpg)
#SuperheroSunday: Leo Pekka Tahti
The Flying Finn recently got married but took time out from preparations to tell us about his three heroes.
![Cassie Mitchell and Kerry Morgan of the USA after the women's 100m T52 final at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France.](/sites/default/files/images/150620115719566_GettyImages-174472783.jpg)
Mitchell, Townsend set world marks at US Paralympics track and field nationals
Mitchell sets her second world record in two days, whilst Townsend breaks the high jump world mark.
![Russia's Margarita Goncharova jumps a new world record in the woman's long jump at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix Berlin 2015 at Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark.](/sites/default/files/images/150621104601793_Gonorova.jpg)
Two new world records for Russia on day two in Berlin
Russian long jumpers Margarita Goncharova and Evgenii Torsunov rewrite history books at IPC Athletics Grand Prix.
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Caironi and Shvetcov set new 200m world records
Caironi broke the 200m world record for the third time in three weeks, whilst Shvetcov broke a seven year old mark.
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Sviridov breaks shot put world record in Berlin
The Russian threw 15.21m on the first day of the IPC Athletics Grand Prix to improve on his own world record.
![Cassie Mitchell and Kerry Morgan of the USA after the women's 100m T52 final at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France.](/sites/default/files/images/150620115719566_GettyImages-174472783.jpg)
US athletes win track and field national titles on first day of championships
Cassie Mitchell breaks Becky Richter of Canada’s 200m T51 world record which has stood since last month.
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Five facts about Berlin
This weekend, Berlin stages the ninth IPC Athletics Grand Prix of 2015. Here are five facts you might not know about the German capital.
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Preview: IPC Athletics Grand Prix Berlin
Around 400 athletes from 40 countries will be in the German capital for the ninth IPC Athletics Grand Prix of the year.