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London’s former Olympic Stadium
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The IPC Athletics Grand Prix final will be held on Sunday 26 July.

Great Britain's Hannah Cockroft on her way to a new 200m T34 world record in Nottwil, Switzerland in May 2014.
Athletics

Unbeaten in seven years, here is what the world’s best T34 wheelchair racer does on an average day.

A picture of a man throwing a discuss
Athletics

Sixty athletes and four guides to represent Team USA at August’s Parapan American Games.

Graphic showing a pic of a women in a wheelchair, leaning back, stretching
Athletics

The US thrower only took up para-sport in 2014, but already is a world record holder and favourite to win a world title later this year.

Crossing the finishing line in Beijing
Athletics

The Cuban Paralympic and world champion sprinting is gearing up for a busy few months with the Toronto Parapan American Games and the World Championships.

A sprinter overtakes another runner on the 100m straight.
Athletics

The 2015 para-athletics season has been spectacular so far and is set to get even more exciting as we approach October’s World Championships in Doha, Qatar.

Veronica Hipolito of Brazil set World Record over 100m T38 at the IPC Athletics World Championships.
Athletics

After winning the 200m world title in 2013, the Brazilian T38 sprinter said her life changed forever.

Women runs on a blue track, looks focused
Athletics

Norman breaks 10-year-old women’s 800m T44 record by 10 seconds.

Russia’s world, Paralympic and European long jump T38 champion Margarita Goncharova, gives an insight into her three heroes.
Athletics

After breaking the long jump T38 world record last week in Berlin, Germany, the T38 athlete shares with us her three heroes.

A woman with a running blade clenches her face in effort as she sprints forward.
Athletics

After nine Grand Prix, five continents and hundreds of races and events, here is a review of the season so far in numbers.

Louise Sauvage
Athletics

The nine-time Paralympic gold medallist is harvesting a breed of athletics champions in her home country.

Richard Browne
Athletics

The 100m and 200m T44 world record holders guides us through his average training day.

A picture of a man on the starting block
Athletics

One world, American and four Americas records highlight day three in Minnesota.

Doha 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships logo unveiled
Athletics

Media accreditation for the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar, now open

Finland’s world, Paralympic and European 100m T54 champion Leo-Pekka Tahti, gives an insight into his three heroes.
Athletics

The Flying Finn recently got married but took time out from preparations to tell us about his three heroes.

Cassie Mitchell and Kerry Morgan of the USA after the women's 100m T52 final at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France.
Athletics

Mitchell sets her second world record in two days, whilst Townsend breaks the high jump world mark.

Russia's Margarita Goncharova jumps a new world record in the woman's long jump at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix Berlin 2015 at Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark.
Athletics

Russian long jumpers Margarita Goncharova and Evgenii Torsunov rewrite history books at IPC Athletics Grand Prix.

A woman with a running blade clenches her face in effort as she sprints forward.
Athletics

Caironi broke the 200m world record for the third time in three weeks, whilst Shvetcov broke a seven year old mark.

Russia's Vladimir Sviridov won long jump bronze at London 2012.
Athletics

The Russian threw 15.21m on the first day of the IPC Athletics Grand Prix to improve on his own world record.

Cassie Mitchell and Kerry Morgan of the USA after the women's 100m T52 final at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France.
Athletics

Cassie Mitchell breaks Becky Richter of Canada’s 200m T51 world record which has stood since last month.