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Athletics

The home team for Junes’s IPC Athletics European Championships will feature 26 athletes.

Great Britain's Shelby Watson in action at the 2016 IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Nottwil, Switzerland.
Athletics

The British T33 wheelchair racer lowered her own 100m and 400m records as Walid Ktilia and Leilia Adzhametova also rewrote the record books.

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Athletics

The 100m T38 world record holders shares her high and lows which both come from last year’s World Championships.

The IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Nottwil will feature 350 athletes from 39 countries between 29-31 May
Athletics

More than 380 athletes from 50 countries will compete in a meeting that traditionally delivers fast times and world records.

a female from Australia competing in a wheelchair with green and yellow clothes and a white helmet
Athletics

The Australian T53 athlete believes last year’s Grand Prix in Nottwil, where she broke the 400m world record, was a turning point in her sporting career.

Aled Davies
Athletics

The British world and Paralympic champion thrower likes spinning records as much as he enjoys breaking them.

Marlou van Rhijn celebrates after winning the womens 200m T44 final during day three of the IPC Athletics European Championships at Swansea
Athletics

The Dutch blade runner has set three worlds at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Switzerland in the last two years.

a male from Germany wearing red and black clothes competing in the long jump
Athletics

Here are six stories that could make all the headlines in athletics at September’s Paralympic Games.

Brazil's Daniel Martins celebrates winning the men's 400m T20 final with Graclino Tavares Barbosa of Cape Verde during the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships.
Athletics

One world and two Americas records were set on the third day of the competition which is acting as a Rio 2016 test event.

Jonnie Peacock celebrates winning gold in the men's 100m T44 Final on Day 8 of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Athletics

In May’s edition of ‘How I got into…’ we find out how Great Britain’s Paralympic sprint champion Jonnie Peacock started out in Para athletics.

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

Here are 10 athletes you cannot miss in action at this September’s Paralympic Games.

Switzerland's Marcel Hug after competing in the Rio 2016 test event in May.
Athletics

The Swiss “Silver Bullet” was in action on the fourth and final day of the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in the 2016 Paralympic Games host city.

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Rio 2016

The sport will be contested in the Olympic Stadium during September’s Paralympic Games.

Wheelchair racer after finishing his race
Athletics

The Canadian T53 wheelchair racer aims to use the Nottwil Grand Prix to qualify for Rio 2016.

Athletics at the Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Games.
Athletics

Find more information on how the athletics grew to become the most popular sport on the Paralympic programme.

Alphanso Cunningham
Athletics

The two-time Paralympic champion is hoping training alongside Usain Bolt will inspire him to track gold at September’s Paralympics.

Georgina Hermitage of Great Britain celebrates winning the Women's 400m T37 race and breaking the world record at the 2015 IPC Athletics Grand Prix Final.
Athletics

Kadeena Cox, Georgina Hermitage and Shelby Watson amongst the record breakers.

Denmark's Daniel Jorgensen celebrates victory at the Rio 2016 Test Event.
Athletics

The Danish athlete improved the T42 world record on the second day of the IPC Athletics Grand Prix with a leap of 6.67m

View on an empty stadium with a blue track
Rio 2016

The event in the Rio 2016 Olympic Stadium will double up as a Test Event for September’s Paralympic Games.

Four men with prosthesis celebrate on a track with USA flags
Athletics

The US sprinter is a strong contender for 100m T44 gold at Rio 2016. Here are his career highs and lows so far.