IPC Athletics European Championships
25-28 June

STADSKANAAL 2012 - Media Centre

News - Athletics

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Australia’s two-time Paralympic medallist, shot putter Hamish Macdonald, is retiring as an athlete after years of devotion to Paralympic sport.

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Brazil’s Terezinha Guilhermina and Great Britain’s Stef Reid won their British Athletics Series events, as Namibia’s Johanna Benson and Brazil’s Yohansson Nascimento also took part.

Michelle Stilwell

Canada’s Michelle Stilwell and Australia’s Rheed McCracken are off to a quick start to 2013 at Australia’s Summer Down Under Series.

Great Britain's T12 athlete Libby Clegg

Seven London 2012 medallists will take part in Saturday’s British Athletics Glasgow International Match at Emirates Arena.

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Paralympian's 2013 Australia Day Address in full - a must read - a huge speech from a huge character.

Kurt Fearnley

Fearnley's speech broadcast live to the whole of Australia

Aled Davies

The Daily Telegraph’s sports reporter Gareth A Davies takes time to reflect on what the London 2012 Games meant to the Paralympic Movement.

Men's 400m T44 London 2012

USA's David Prince, a former drug dealer and dropout, inspired the world by winning bronze in the 400m T44 at London 2012.

Lex Gillette

USA’s visually impaired sprinter and long jumper shares how staying in your lane isn’t just a concept that applies to athletes.

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The 2013 US Paralympics athletics roster will be led by London Paralympic champions Jeremy Campbell, Raymond Martin, Tatyana McFadden and Shirley Reilly.

Jonnie Peacock

Doha will stage the last major gathering of international top athletes before the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Jonnie Peacock

Doha will stage the last major gathering of international top athletes before the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

David Weir

USA ice sledge hockey team

With the new year underway, the IPC’s Stuart Lieberman makes 10 predictions for the upcoming year in Paralympic sport.

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T36 sprinter Min-Jae Jun, a two-time London 2012 silver medallist, was chosen by the public as last year’s top performer in Paralympic sport.

Anti-Doping London image

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Brazil’s Alan Fonteles Oliveira produced one of the biggest upsets in Paralympic history, defeating sprinting great Oscar Pistorius in the 200m T44 in London.

Sarah Storey wins third London 2012 gold

29 British Paralympians and members of LOCOG recognised by Queen Elizabeth II for London 2012

Jonnie Peacock

IPC Director of Media and Communications picks out his best moment of 2012

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As the IPC's Top 50 Moments continues, Gareth A Davies chooses his favourite of 2012