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Germany nominates athletes for World Champs
Paralympic Champions Heinrich Popow and Birgit Kober will lead 26-strong team to Lyon.

Guido Bonsen: Just one month to Lyon 2013
The Dutch coach put heavy planning into this IPC Athletics season. Will it pay off at next month’s World Championships?

IPC to live stream Athletics World Championships
The biggest gathering of international athletes since London 2012 will be shown live from Lyon, France.

IPC to live stream Athletics World Championships
The biggest gathering of international athletes since London 2012 will be shown live from Lyon, France.

Record number of athletes named to French Worlds team
33 athletes and four guides form the French selection for the IPC World Championships Lyon in 2013.
Heinrich Popow: Uh oh, Reardon's on a roll
Germany’s world and Paralympic champion Heinrich Popow talks up Australian Scott Reardon heading into the IPC Athletics Worlds.

Browne, Leeper, McFadden and Singleton named for Lyon
23 men and 11 women who competed in London feature in list of 76 athletes who will compete at World Champs, including injury doubt Richard Browne.

Lyon team named by Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Household names including Hannah Cockroft and Jonnie Peacock selected alongside other Paralympic Champions.

Craig Spence: How low can the 100m world record go?
After a week of amazing amputee sprinting, the IPC Director of Media and Communications looks to the future.

Huge American show of strength at national trials
130 athletes vying for places on national team for World Championships in Lyon, France, put up world-class performances over the weekend.

Marlou van Rhijn heads strong Dutch team for Lyon
Dutch team hoping to continue ‘unexpected’ form with van Rhijn, Pruysen and van Weeghel.

Brazilians dominate in Berlin, Popow peaks in time
A full round-up of all the action from Berlin at the weekend, where world records were broken and history made.
Brazil summons maximum strength for World Championships
35 athletes will travel to Lyon, France, starting out on their road to Rio 2016.

Van Rhijn now world’s fastest female leg amputee
Oliveira and Prince also break world records on glorious day for amputee sprinting

Alan Oliveira smashes 100m world record
The Brazilian ran a 10.77 in the 100m T44 sprint a an IPC Athletics Grand Prix event in Berlin, Germany.

Bolt back with a bang in Oslo – IAAF Diamond League
Competing in the 200m, the final event on the programme, Bolt provided the only meeting record of the night, sending the capacity crowd home happy that they had witnessed a historic performance.

South African team named for Lyon 2013
Team heading to France features experienced Paralympic and World Champions, leading the next generation of younger athletes on their Road to Rio 2016.
Peacock, Fourie’s world records in jeopardy this weekend claims Browne
USA’s 100m T44 Paralympic silver medallist Richard Browne believes both sprint world records are in serious jeopardy at this weekend’s US Paralympics Track and Field National Championships

Popow to headline deep field in Berlin
Sprinters Heinrich Popow, Alan Fonteles Oliveira and Marlou van Rhijn will all take part in this week’s IPC Athletics Grand Prix event.

Peacock tweet ignites rivalry with Browne
“Do it when it counts and from the front then maybe I’ll take notice……. ;)" Peacock tweets after Browne equals 100m world record