PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Thrilling team sport semis highlight Day 8
Day eight featured semifinal action across three team sports, setting up thrilling finals in wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball and blind football

Paris 2024: Low retains Paralympic title in record breaking style
Australia's Vanessa Low wins second Paralympic title in row with a new world record in the women's long jump T61 much like Greece's Ghavelas Athanasios who defends his Paralympic gold in men's 100m T11; Swiss star Catherine Debrunner won her fourth gold medal with a Games record time in women's 400m - T53 final while Wen Xiaoyan gets golden treble at the Stade de France on day seven of competitions

Paris 2024: Para powerlifting day three preview
Paralympic legend Amalia Perez and the other stars to follow on Friday at the La Chapelle Arena, day three of the powerlifting programme at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Paris 2024: Elena Krawzow defends Paralympic title with new world record
German swimmer who was diagnosed with brain cancer weeks after Tokyo 2020 gold wins women's 100m breaststroke SB12 with one of the five Para swimming world records set at La Defense Arena on Thursday at the Paralympic Games

Dutch ‘machine’ Plat nets a hat-trick
Dutch Para cyclist will turn his attention to the marathon after a gold trifecta

Paris 2024: Third time lucky for Rehab Ahmed, Clara Fuentes makes history
Egyptian takes her elusive Paralympic gold at La Chapelle Arena after two consecutive silver medals, Venezuelan powerlifter put her country on the top of the podium for the first time in the sport, China’s Zou Yi and Egypt's Mohamed Elmenyawy take Games title in the men's events on Thursday

Para canoe gets underway on Day 9
Day 9 of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games features the start of the Para canoe competition and sitting volleyball medal matches, as well as thrilling wheelchair basketball semifinals

Silver lining for Martinet as Paris hails home hero
Also memorable medals for Kazakhstan's Sherzod Namozov and Kapil Parmar of India on first day of Para judo

Meet the Paralympians making waves in Bermuda
Wheelchair racer Jessica Cooper Lewis and boccia athlete Yushae Andrade are the only competitors from Bermuda at the Paris 2024 Paralympics

Sevda Altunoluk makes history with third goalball gold
Reigning women's champions Turkiye beat Israel to clinch goalball gold