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Big moments on Day 4
Japan stun Australia in "miraculous" wheelchair rugby semi-final

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

Paris 2024: Karen Palomeque leads Saturday of world records at Stade de France
Colombia makes unforgettable Paralympic debut with gold in the women’s 100m T38, while USA's Jaydin Blackwell and the Netherlands' Joel de Jong smash their own world records en route to gold in the second day of Para athletics at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Top medal highlights from Day 3
Chinese Para table tennis athletes Mao Jingdian and Zhao Shuai became first-ever Paralympic mixed doubles gold medallists

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

Big moments on Day 3
Netherlands' Fleur Jong leaps to gold in the women's long jump T64

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

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

Kashafali goes from hunger to happiness
DR Congo-born sprinter popular for his dancing gains mental strength and perspective from tough childhood

Top medal highlights from Day 2
Agripino dos Santos claimed the first Para athletics gold of Paris 2024, setting a new world record

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

Big moments on Day 2
Raoua Tlili defended her gold medal in the women's shot put F41 event as Para athletics got underway

Rainbow-Cooper wants to smash ceilings
First British winner of Boston Marathon makes Paralympic debut in Paris

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

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

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

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

Para athletics set to wow fans at Stade de France
China aim to lead the way in the biggest ever carnival of Para athletics at the Paralympic Games

Meet France’s home hero Nantenin Keita
Nantenin Keita will carry the host country’s flag at the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony

Woodhall says: 'Prepare to be amazed!'
Para athletics superstars including Woodhall and Markus Rehm tell us why the Paris 2024 Paralympics will be unmissable viewing