PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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Madeira 2022: Anastasia Pagonis repeats Tokyo with debut gold medal
US star wins her first ever World Championships race while Italy's Simone Barlaam breaks his own record helping Italy to reach 16 golds in four days
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Santiago 2023 officially confirms sports venues
• The next Pan American and Parapan American Games will be held in four regions, 19 communities and 41 sports venues
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Para badminton world champion Manasi Joshi on living life without limits
‘I wish every person with a disability gets the benefit of sport, like it has given me'
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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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Madeira 2022: Award winner Yip Pin Xiu defends her world title on day three
Spain's Marta Fernandez takes two golds in less than one hour and former refugee athlete Abbas Karimi helps Team USA to break relay world record
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Swans and World Para Swimming extend partnership until 2024
Madeira 2022 is the third World Championships since the partnership between Swans and World Para Swimming began in September 2017
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Madeira 2022: Brazil's new star Samuel Oliveira wins two golds in one day
Sixteen-year-old continues Daniel Dias' legacy in the S5 class on a Monday with two world records and four USA victories in Funchal
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Pyeongtaek 2022: Paralympic and world champions return for more glory
Asia Oceania Open Championships opens season of Regional Champs from 15-20 June in South Korea
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Chateauroux 2022: Twelve countries secure spot for Paris 2024
France enjoy a great week on home soil and earns three quotas for the next Paralympic Games with China, Poland, and India taking two