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News - Athletics
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Fleur Jong settles historic mark in Leverkusen
Dutch athlete becomes the first woman with prosthetic legs to run the 100m in less than 12.50 during meeting in Germany
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World's best return to Leverkusen
Germany club welcomes 99 athletes from 10 countries across Africa, Asia and Europe at the 2022 Para Leichtathletik Heimspiel
Tunis GP sees renewed rivalries and French clean sweep
Local Paralympic star Raoua Tlili beats Morocco’s Youssra Karim for gold as Yasser Musanganya leads triple podium for World Championships hosts
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Old rivalries renewed as Grand Prix returns to Africa for traditional event in Tunis
450 athletes from 27 countries are expected to compete at the Athletics Stadium Rades from 27-29 June during the fifth stop on the 2022 events calendar
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Pride Month: Robyn Lambird on making history and being in the spotlight
‘It’s only now, reflecting back, I can see the importance of telling my story and being visible in order to open the sport up to more people’
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Record-smashers shine at Paris Grand Prix
Luca Ekler, Fleur Jong Martina Caironi and Ayoub Sadni keep the hegemony in their events in test-event to next year's World Championships
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Paris GP returns with stellar line-up
Home of next year’s World Championships, the Charlety Stadium welcomes athletes from 57 countries in the fourth edition of the event
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Paul Fitzgerald appointed Head of World Para Athletics
Fitzgerald to join the organisation from 15 June following four years at the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)
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Madison de Rozario on how Para sports taught her to love her ‘perfect’ body
'I believe with every part of me that sport is the easiest, healthiest way to unlearn all those things that we’re taught to believe growing up'
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BAC sanctions athlete Vinod Kumar for Intentional Misrepresentation
The results obtained by the Indian athlete in Para athletics competition at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games have been disqualified
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Fleur Jong flies high at L'Hospitalet 2022
Dutch Paralympic champion sets new world record at the traditional international Para athletics meeting in Spain on Saturday
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Debrunner delights home fans with four world records in Nottwil
Marcel Hug is another Swiss wheelchair racing star to set a new world record during the three-day World Para Athletics Grand Prix
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Paralympic champions return to L'Hospitalet
Markus Rehm and Fleur Jong join Adiaratou Iglesias and plenty of local stars at the traditional International Meeting in Spain on Saturday
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Debrunner welcomes new career challenges in Nottwil
Switzerland hosts third Grand Prix of the season with plenty of Paralympic medallists in action from Thursday to Saturday
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Record-breaker Hunt-Broersma will ‘never stop’… unless her other leg ‘falls off’
The South African-born amputee has recently completed 104 marathons in 104 consecutive days
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Paris GP to have record participation
The fourth edition of the competition will welcome more than 750 athletes from 57 countries to the French capital in June
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Ten-year-old Ruf on track to continue great Swiss wheelchair racing tradition
Child prodigy and Marcel Hug's training ground partner proves it is never too early to take up Para sports.
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Kobe to host World Championships in 2024
The 11th edition of the Para Athletics Worlds is set to take place in Japan from 17 to 25 May two years from now
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Ekler and Sabatini shatter world records in Jesolo
Italian athletes break one world and eleven national records as the World Para Athletics Grand Prix season makes a stop in Jesolo from 6 to 8 May
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Nigerian Para athletics athlete receives three-year ban
Ifeanyichukwu Christian Madubuike will be ineligible for competition for three years from 23 April 2021 to 22 April 2024