IPC Athletics Asia-Oceania Championships
6-12 March

Dubai 2016 - News

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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

Sareh Javanmardi takes aim in a shooting Para sport competition

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

Three female short statures athletes showing their medals

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

Man in blue tee and shorts kneels on the badminton court holding a ring

Big moments on Day 2

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

A runner and his guide ahead of three other runners with guides in a race

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