2016 Dubai News - 2016 IPC Athletics Asia-Oceania Championships

Athletics

IPC and World Para Athletics mourn passing of John Bourke

Bourke was the first ever Head of Classification for what was formerly known as IPC Athletics

A male athlete in a national kit smiles as a medal presenter puts a medal around his neck.

Athletics

Teenage runner Misoya spreads joy from dirt tracks in Malawi

Poverty and lean training conditions no obstacle for 17-year-old runner determined to bring pride to his large family and remote village in southeastern Africa

A female Para athlete runs with her male guide runner

Athletics

Cuban sprint queen Durand embraces perfect chemistry with guide Kindelan

The great connection between athletes with vision impairments and their able-bodied guides, like the one between Omara Durand and Yuniol Kindelan, is one of the many things we celebrate on International Day of Persons with Disabilities, celebrated on 3 December

A group of people waving from a stadium stand

Athletics

Paris 2023: Call for volunteers!

Nearly 2,000 volunteers across 15 different functional areas will be mobilised to help organise the event in the French capital

A female athlete holds a yellow picture book about a dog with a prosthetic leg

Athletics

Japanese Paralympian Maegawa writes children’s book about prosthetics

Kaede Maegawa, who competed at the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, wrote a book last year about a black dog with a prosthetic leg

A female wheelchair racer with the USA flag and a male racer with the Swiss flag in front of a marathon finishing line

Athletics

Scaroni and Hug seal series crown with NYC Marathon win

USA and Switzerland's wheelchair racers triumph in unseasonably warm conditions on Sunday in New York

A male athlete with a prosthetic leg steps forward to throw a javelin

Tokyo 2020

India’s Paralympic champion Antil shares secret to his success in javelin throwing

Antil extended the world record three times in the men’s javelin F64 final at Tokyo 2020 en route to winning his maiden gold medal

USA's Susannah Scaroni crosses the finish line in 1:45:48 to win the 2022 Chicago Marathon.

Athletics

Scaroni, Hug triumph at Chicago Marathon

The 31-year-old from USA stuns nine-time champion McFadden for her first ever major title as Swiss legend sets a new course record in the men's race

Commonwealth Games

Victoria 2026 Commonwealth Games to feature nine Para sports

Para swimming, Para athletics, 3x3 wheelchair basketball, Para track cycling, Para lawn bowls, Para powerlifting, shooting Para sport, Para table tennis and Para triathlon will be featured at Victoria 2026, with Para disciplines in golf, coastal rowing and road race cycling also vying for inclusion

A woman and a man in racing wheelchair racers in front of the finish line of the London Marathon

Athletics

Debrunner and Hug do it again in London

Swiss pair triumph in the men’s and women’s wheelchair races in the British capital to replicate their victories seven days earlier in Berlin

Three female wheelchair racers in the podium of the Berlin Marathon

Athletics

Debrunner makes marvellous marathon debut in Berlin

Marcel Hug takes seventh triumph in the German capital with a dominant performance to complete a Swiss sweep in the wheelchair races

Three female athletes pose by raising two fingers in front of their faces at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

Athletics

Caironi embraces friendship behind Italy’s 100m sweep at Tokyo 2020

Two-time Paralympic gold medallist Martina Caironi took silver behind her “sister” Ambra Sabatini in the women’s 100m T63, with fellow Italian and close friend Monica Graziana Contrafatto wrapping up the podium

A male athlete in a chair competing in javelin throw

Athletics

Grand Prix 2023 calendar revealed

Tunis will be the first of six cities hosting the series next year in the season that marks the 10th anniversary of the World Para Athletics GP

Local star and Tokyo 2020 Paralympic gold medallist Ayoub Sadni will aim at improving his time that made him Tokyo 2020 Paralympic champion in the men’s 400m T47, at home.

Athletics

Morocco hosts first-ever GP led by Paralympic champions

Grand Prix series returns to Africa with plenty of Tokyo 2020 champions in action in the three-day event in Marrakech

Ten people in French uniforms clap onstage with their hands raised high.

Paris 2024

Paris 2024 Ambassador: "It's ambitious, but we need to be ambitious"

Twenty years after making his Paralympic debut at Athens 2004, long jumper Arnaud Assoumani is hoping to compete – and win – at his home Paralympic Games in Paris

Athletics

Paris 2023: World Championships event programme announced

Next year's World Championships will be the first opportunity for athletes to achieve direct qualification slots for their NPCs for the 2024 Paralympic Games

A male sprinter and a female sprinter run on the track of a packed stadium while holding relay batons.

Athletics

Cockroft and van Rhijn share their memories of racing with Usain Bolt

On Usain Bolt’s 36th birthday, Paralympic champions Hannah Cockroft and Marlou van Rhijn look back at the time they shared a track with a fellow legend