PARA ATHLETICS NEWS
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Italian star Sabatini ready for a 200m debut in Jesolo
Italian city is hosting its second World Para Athletics Grand Prix with athletes from 27 nations competing from Friday to Sunday (6-8 May)
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Grand Prix 2022 season update: Nottwil to host GP in May
The Swiss city is hosting the second Grand Prix event in May after Jesolo, Italy, taking on the stage from 6 to 8 May
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Boston Marathon survivor Haslet marks ninth anniversary with unforgettable finish
Former ballroom dancer completes Boston Marathon nine years after losing her left leg in the terrorist bombings
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Mayhugh: ‘I want to educate people about the Paralympics’
• USA's four-time Paralympic medallist is a die-hard football fan with a Ronaldinho tattoo and big plans for the future in Para athletics
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Switzerland’s Marcel Hug wins 2022 Laureus Award
Record-breaking performance at Tokyo 2020 makes Hug a double Laureus Award winner
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Sensational Hug opens the season with a world record
World’s best impress at the Grand Prix season opener in Dubai breaking multiple world and regional records from 21 to 24 March
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Marcel Hug leads star-packed field at the Dubai 2022 GP
Nearly 450 athletes from 43 countries to take part in the first World Para Athletics event of the year in UAE
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2021 recap: The great Para athletics comeback
Outstanding Grand Prix season with a European Championships topped by the Paralympic Games, 2021 had it all for Para athletics
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Paris to host 2023 Para Athletics World Championships
Charlety Stadium will hold the biggest Para sport event to take place in the French capital before the Paralympic Games in the following year
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Ireland's McKillop announces retirement
Four-time Paralympic gold medallist and multi Para athletics champion made his final appearance in an emotional men's 1500m final in Tokyo
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Marcel Hug smashes 22-year-old world record
Switzerland's Tokyo 2020 Paralympic champion returns to Japan to make history in the traditional Oita Marathon
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Iranian athlete Nikoeimajd Mehran suspended four years for anti-doping rule violation
Relevant sample collected out-of-competition from Para athlete prior to the Dubai 2019 World Para Athletics Championships
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Paralympic champions De Rozario and Hug win in New York
Australian wheelchair racer becomes the first athlete to win marathon gold in the Paralympics and in the NYC Marathon in the same year since 2008
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Tokyo 2020 medallists meet as NYC Marathon returns
Paralympic champion Madison de Rozario to go up against Manuela Schaer for the first time after their epic battle in Japan
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Takeaways from Para Athletics
Twenty one-year-old Ethiopian Tigist Gezahagn Mengistu won the women's 1500m T13 in her first major championships
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Swiss double as Schaer and Hug win in Boston
USA's Tatyana McFadden and Daniel Romanchuk take second places in Boston a day after winning at the Chicago Marathon
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Schaer and Hug triumph at the London Marathon
Swiss stars win in London for the third time just a week after taking the double at the Berlin Marathon
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Para athlete Caio Pereira receives four-year ban for anti-doping rule violation
Brazilian returned an adverse analytical finding for a prohibited substance in a urine sample provided after competing at Lima 2019 Parapan Am Games
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Swiss domination at the 2021 Berlin Marathon
Manuela Schaer takes her fifth consecutive title as Marcel Hug returns to the top of the podium in his first race after winning gold at Tokyo 2020