World Para Athletics Championships
7-15 November

LATEST PARA ATHLETICS NEWS

Day 6 morning | Athletics highlights | Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

Fifteen-year-old Isis Holt is going for gold in the women’s 100m T35 final – along with four other teenagers.

Kadeena Cox after winning her race

Four days after winning gold in the Velodrome, Kadeena Cox won gold on the track at the Paralympic Games.

Gold medalist Diogo Ualisson Jeronimo da Silva, Gustavo Henrique Araujo, Daniel Silva, Heitor de Oliveira Sales, Felipe Gomes and Jonas de Lima Silva of Brazil pose on the podium

Host nation’s athletes have been spurred on by support from Brazilian fans, helping them to achieve huge success in Rio.

Athletics | Men's 800m - T34 Final | Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

Mohamed Alhammadi upsets for gold in men’s 800m T34, while Hannah Cockroft resets her own world record.

Guangxu Shang of China competes in the men's long jump T37.

World record broken three times in breathtaking final at the Olympic Stadium – but it’s Guangxu Shang who clinches gold.

Athletics | Women's 1500 - T54 Final | Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

Pair add 1,500m titles to their 5,000m golds – and there is also a second gold of the Rio Games for Great Britain’s Libby Clegg.

Day 5 morning | Athletics highlights | Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

Middle distance races dominate day six of the athletics – but who will come out on top?

Walid Ktila of Tunisia won all four of the events he took part in over the three days of track and field action at the Rades Athletics Stadium.

Tunisia’s Walid Ktila is determined to defend the 100m T34 title he won at London 2012. Can anyone stop him?

Agitos symbol unveiled on Copacabana Beach.

The T47 sprinter, who features in the latest video in the road to Rio 2016 film series, hopes to qualify for the Paralympic Games one day.

Omara Durand winning gold in Rio

Cuba’s 24-year-old sensation blasted to victory in the women’s 200m T12 final and could claim a third medal on Saturday (17 September).

Agitos

Felipe Veloso da Silva has served a three-month suspension for a violation committed in May 2016.

Akeem Stewart wins gold in the Men's Javelin Throw - F44 at Rio 2016

Javelin throw earned Trinidad and Tobago its first Paralympic gold in over three decades. The nation might not have to wait long for its next one.

Athletics | Men's 4x100m - T42-47 Final | Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

Action-packed day at the Olympic Stadium sees Germany’s 4x100m T42-47 team triumph after USA suffer repeat of 2012 disqualification.

Prawat Wahoram of Thailand and Marcel Hug of Switzerland lead the pack in heat one of the men's 5000m meter T54 at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

There are plenty of exciting match-ups on the cards at the Olympic Stadium, including a showdown sure to excite the locals in the crowd.

Petrucio Ferreira dos Santos BRA takes the Gold Medal in the Men's 100m.

Brazil’s teenage sensation gets the home crowds roaring on a sensational Sunday morning at Rio’s Olympic Stadium.

Athletics | Women's 400m - T53 Final | Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

Algerian Abdellatif Baka wins a dramatic tussle in the men’s 1,500m T13 to clinch his first Paralympic title on eventful day at Olympic Stadium.

Day 2 evening | Athletics highlights | Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

Ray Martin and Hannah Cockroft are among the stars lining up for battle on another day of keenly-fought competition on the track and in the field.

View on an empty stadium with a blue track

Ray Martin and Hannah Cockroft take centre stage, but the day’s biggest cheer could be at the judo for Brazil’s Antonio Tenorio.

Training programme takes place in Cape Verde with the help of a grant from the Agitos Foundation.

Gracelino Tavares Barbosa captured bronze in the men’s 400m T20 at Rio 2016 and said he “had never imagined this would happen”.

Members of Nepal's delegation at the Athletes Village

Swimmer Kunwar Laxmi and track and field athlete Bikram Rana are Nepal’s two representatives at Latin America’s first Paralympic Games.