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LATEST PARA ATHLETICS NEWS
'Little Cannon' throws down Lyon gauntlet
Italian Assunta Legnante sets season's best in shot put ahead of World Champs and aims for a podium in the discus.
Oliveira excited by Leeper rivalry at Lyon 2013
Brazilian Paralympic champion Alan Fonteles Oliveira is targeting world records in France at the IPC Athletics World Championships.
Teams start arriving for Lyon 2013
Eighty-six of the 98 countires competing at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships will arrive in the city on Monday (15 July).
Guilhermina targets sub 12 seconds 100m at Lyon 2013
Brazilian world and Paralympic champion wants to go faster than ever before.
Popow sends Reardon warning shot with 100m world record
German smashes Australian's world record ahead of world title showdown on 26 July
Graham Cockroft: What has (or hasn't!) changed
Hannah Cockroft’s father on what it was like for him seeing his daughter win gold at London 2012, and what has changed going into Lyon 2013.
Lyon 2013 to be biggest World Championships to date
1,100 athletes from 99 countries set to compete in 207 medal events and media and broadcasters from 25 countries will provide coverage.
Don't count out Tunisia in Lyon
Four Paralympic champions hope to bring more titles back to Tunisia from the IPC Athletics World Championships.
Looking at Lyon: Men’s discus F44
The biggest battle on the field in Lyon is expected to be between Great Britain’s Dan Greaves and the USA’s Jeremy Campbell in the discus F44.
Looking at Lyon: Men’s 5,000m T54
In the first of nine event previews for the IPC Athletics World Championships, the men’s 5,000m T54 will offer a glimpse of wheelchair racing’s future.
Lyon 2013 to be biggest World Championships to date
• 1,100 athletes from 99 countries set to compete in 207 medal events• Media and broadcasters from 25 countries will cover the event
Toronto 2015 celebrates two-year countdown
Wheelchair racer Josh Cassidy and para-cyclist Shelley Gautier helped celebrate two years until the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games.
Channel 4 continues Paralympics legacy
British broadcaster will be showing athletics and swimming World Champs, as well as the Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games.
Looking at Lyon: Women’s 100m T37
The women’s 100m T37 sprint will be a quick battle to the finish between France’s Mandy Francois-Elie and Namibia’s Johanna Benson.
Marieke Vervoort in battle royale with Michelle Stilwell
Belgian aiming to topple world No. 1 over 100m and 200m in Lyon.
Bolt, James, Diaba and Kemboi set world leads - IAAF Diamond League
Standards are raised on the track in Paris.
Seven year itch for world’s fastest Paralympian
Jason Smyth is making his World Champs comeback after missing the last in 2011, and hopes to reclaim his world titles in Lyon.
Weir: I'd put money on Marcel Hug to win gold
Without David Weir in Lyon, Marcel Hug is expected to become the face of the men’s T54 class on the track and road.
Throwing the distance at the World Champs
Two of the biggest rivals in athletics - Jeremy Campbell and Dan Greaves - face off in Lyon, with Campbell looking to take the discus F44 world title away from Greaves.