PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
![Four female athletes with running blades look to their left side](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2023-10/re-Asian%20Games%202023%20athletics.jpg?h=0d99e5e9&itok=JsxWkfEt)
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
![More than 70 people pose for a group photo in front of a screen that says "IPC IF and NPC Classification Meeting"](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2022-09/2022_IF_NPCs_Classification_Meeting_group%20photo%20edited.jpg?h=c2a18ea9&itok=BRub1pre)
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