PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
![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/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)
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/2023-11/javelin.jpg)
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/2023-10/jianyyuyam.jpg)
Asian Para Games: Impressive Jiang 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
![A woman with a headscarf holding a baby next to another woman with a headscarf in a shooting range](/sites/default/files/2023-10/Sareh%20Javanmardi%20and%20Faezeh%20Ahmadi%20.jpg)
Asian Para Games: Stars and young talents add Hangzhou gold to their 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/2023-10/Yiting%20Shi%20APG.jpg)
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
![Four female athletes with running blades look to their left side](/sites/default/files/2023-10/re-Asian%20Games%202023%20athletics.jpg)
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/2023-10/Yujiao%20Tan%20-%20China%20APG.jpg)
Asian Para Games: Dominant China raises the bar with record-breaking performances
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/2023-10/chinaceremony.jpg)
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/2023-10/paracanoe1.jpg)
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