PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
![Correos de Chile created stamps specifically for the Pan American and Parapan American games.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2023-11/chile2023.jpg?h=6caedb5a&itok=8wLx8_TR)
Santiago 2023 Parapan American Games: Another big stop in the road to Paris 2024
Almost 2000 athletes from the entire Americas region will battle for medals, records and, in several sports, qualifications for the Paralympics next year
![Women powerlifters celebrate.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2023-11/The%20hosts%20Egypt%20finished%20as%20the%20most%20successful%20team%2C%20clinching%2014%20gold%20medals%2C%20at%20the%20Cairo%202023%20World%20Cup.jpg?h=f85b7e8d&itok=2NpEj0cM)
World champion Ahmed leads hosts’ domination at Cairo 2023 World Cup
Home team Egypt collected 14 gold medals with top powerlifters Ahmed, Elmenyawy and Elelfat emerging winners during the three-day competition
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European Open Championships to return to Madeira in 2024
Portuguese island will host one of the most important Para swimming events in the lead up to the Paralympic Games from 21 to 27 April next year
![A female wheelchair racer crossing the finish line in a street marathon](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2023-11/Catherine%20Debrunner%20NYC%20Marathon%202023.jpg?itok=GqDb15of)
Debrunner and Hug set records at 2023 NYC Marathon
Swiss wheelchair racers dominate the event with Debrunner setting new course record in her debut and Hug making history with his sixth victory
![Reigning world champion Rehab Ahmed will hope to continue her gold medal winning show at home in the Cairo 2023 World Cup.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2023-11/Egypt%27s%20Rehab%20Ahmed%20will%20hope%20to%20continue%20her%20gold%20medal%20winning%20show%20at%20home%20in%20the%20Cairo%202023%20World%20Cup.%20.jpg?itok=FmMMyDMX)
World medallists gather for Cairo 2023 World Cup
Paralympic and reigning world champion Ahmed will lead the home challenge in absence of Osman as 62 lifters from 11 nations to vie for glory
![Zanele Situ Gold medal winner from South Africa in Sidney 2000](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2023-11/javelin.jpg?itok=m5XrD1SO)
IPC mourns passing of pioneering South African athlete Zanele Situ
At the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games, she became the first black South African female athlete to win a Paralympic gold medal
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Kenyan athlete Rodgers Kiprop receives three-year ban for anti-doping rule violation
Para athletics athlete returned an adverse analytical finding out-of-competition in June for the administration of an anabolic androgenic steroid
![Jiang yuyan, chinese swimmer](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2023-10/jianyyuyam.jpg?itok=yQWHKeXP)
Asian Para Games: Impressive Yuyan leads hosts in Hangzhou
Eighteen-year-old world champion picks seven gold medals, more than any other athlete at the Asian Para Games in China
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Asian Para Games: Stars and young talents add Hangzhou gold to collection
Exciting prospects and a very special fan join Paralympic and world champions during five action-packed days of shooting Para sport in China
![A female athlete with a Chinese flag in a athletics stadium](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2023-10/Yiting%20Shi%20APG.jpg?itok=ZFyEzK9c)
Asian Para Games: China dominates track events, Sumit puts Indian on top
Chinese star Wen Xiaoyan claims hat-trick of golds and world records as host nations breaks the 200 gold medal-mark in Para athletics in Hangzhou
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Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games: Top moments
The Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games saw 3,020 athletes compete in 502 medal events for six intense days in October 2023
![A female powerlifter celebrating on a bench press](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2023-10/Yujiao%20Tan%20-%20China%20APG.jpg?itok=xUhzOug_)
Asian Para Games: Dominant China raises the bar at home
Host nation takes 14 out of 20 gold medals up for grabs in Hangzhou with Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan and Malaysia also topping the podium
![Asian Para Games closing ceremony in Hangzhou](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2023-10/chinaceremony.jpg?h=f3c2ae95&itok=Zw8NU3sk)
Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games closes with success and growth for Paralympic movement
A record of 33 out of 44 NPCs that participated in the six-day competition won medals; China stays in front of the pack with an incredible tally of 521
![Prachi Yadav and Manish Kaurav, wife and husband, won medals in Para canoe for India during the Para Asian Games in Hangzhou 2022.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2023-10/paracanoe1.jpg?h=1260256d&itok=sVm_Ox0T)
Para canoe’s power couple and their perfect love story in Hangzhou
India’s Manish Kaurav and Prachi Yadav have been married for three years and both of them won medals at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games
![Najlah Imad Lafta Al Dayyeni, from Iraq, participated in women's S6.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2023-10/iraqtabletennis.jpg?itok=2bOUB4iE)
Meet three Para table tennis champions ready to take the spotlight at Paris 2024
Para table tennis is one of the sports from Hangzhou 2022 that awarded slots for the Paralympic Games next year. Joo Young Dae (Republic of Korea), Najlah Imad Lafta Al Dayyeni (Iraq) and Rungroj Thainiyom (Thailand) qualified for Paris 2024
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Classification Code expert: "The new Code will deliver the highest standard ever"
Anne Hart, one of the world’s leading experts on classification, explains its fascinating history and how the process to integrate all stakeholders to develop an improved and more efficient Code is done
![Bahrain parades in the Opening Ceremony of the 2022 Asian Para Games.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2023-10/bahrain1.jpg?h=9c6d6c55&itok=3G0g3Ozz)
Asian Para Games: Athletes compete with big hopes and impactful missions in mind
More than 3,000 sportsmen and women are participating in Hangzhou with objectives that go from earning slots for Paris 2024 to raising awareness for their sport
![The wheelchair Rugby World Cup 2023 was held in France and won by Australia.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2023-10/rugby1.jpg?itok=fJfs9o1c)
Australia defeated Canada to win International Wheelchair Rugby Cup 2023
Second-ranked nation Australia won the IWRC 2023 in Paris after beating fifth-ranked Canada 53-48 in the final match of the tournament.
![The Paralympic marathon will go through many Paris monuments.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2023-10/marathon2024.jpg?itok=T5FQJuNj)
Paris 2024 reveals route of Paralympic Marathon
Four gold medals will be up for grabs in a challenging course through Seine-Saint-Denis and Paris on 8 September, last day of the Paralympic Games
![Two wheelchair racers getting close to the finish line](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2021-11/GettyImages-1338346795.jpg?itok=5KR_jjp4)
Paris 2024 announces marathon and cycling road racing courses for the Paralympics
The beauty of Paris will be highlighted in the routes; access will be free for all the fans