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Commonwealth Games

Sport programme for 2026 Commonwealth Games to feature nine Para sports

Para swimming, Para athletics, 3x3 wheelchair basketball, Para track cycling, Para lawn bowls, Para powerlifting, shooting Para sport, Para table tennis and Para triathlon will be featured at Victoria 2026, with Para disciplines in golf, coastal rowing and road race cycling also vying for inclusion

A woman and a man in racing wheelchair racers in front of the finish line of the London Marathon

Athletics

Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner do it again at London Marathon

Swiss pair triumph in the men’s and women’s wheelchair races in the British capital to replicate their victories seven days earlier in Berlin

Three female wheelchair racers in the podium of the Berlin Marathon

Athletics

Catherine Debrunner makes marvellous debut at Berlin Marathon

Marcel Hug takes seventh triumph in the German capital with a dominant performance to complete a Swiss sweep in the wheelchair races

Three female athletes pose by raising two fingers in front of their faces at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

Athletics

Caironi embraces special friendship behind Italy’s 100m sweep at Tokyo 2020

Two-time Paralympic gold medallist Martina Caironi took silver behind her “sister” Ambra Sabatini in the women’s 100m T63, with fellow Italian and close friend Monica Graziana Contrafatto wrapping up the podium

A male athlete in a chair competing in javelin throw

Athletics

World Para Athletics announces Grand Prix 2023 calendar

Tunis will be the first of six cities hosting the series next year in the season that marks the 10th anniversary of the World Para Athletics GP

Local star and Tokyo 2020 Paralympic gold medallist Ayoub Sadni will aim at improving his time that made him Tokyo 2020 Paralympic champion in the men’s 400m T47, at home.

Athletics

Morocco hosts first-ever GP led by Paralympic champions

Grand Prix series returns to Africa with plenty of Tokyo 2020 champions in action in the three-day event in Marrakech

Ten people in French uniforms clap onstage with their hands raised high.

Paris 2024

Paris 2024 Ambassador Assoumani: "It's really ambitious, but we need to be ambitious"

Twenty years after making his Paralympic debut at Athens 2004, long jumper Arnaud Assoumani is hoping to compete – and win – at his home Paralympic Games in Paris

Athletics

World Para Athletics announces Paris 2023 Event Programme and Qualification Criteria

Next year's World Championships will be the first opportunity for athletes to achieve direct qualification slots for their NPCs for the 2024 Paralympic Games

A male sprinter and a female sprinter run on the track of a packed stadium while holding relay batons.

Athletics

Cockroft and van Rhijn share their memories of racing with Usain Bolt

On Usain Bolt’s 36th birthday, Paralympic champions Hannah Cockroft and Marlou van Rhijn look back at the time they shared a track with a fellow legend

A female wheelchair racer crossing the finish line at the New York City Marathon

Athletics

Tokyo 2020 champions De Rozario and Hug to defend NYC Marathon crown

Australian wheelchair racer keen to continue her winning streak in New York following Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games gold last month

Eucharia Iyazi (centre) of Nigeria with her team mate and bronze medallist Ugochi Alam and silver medallist Arlette Mawe Fokoa of Cameroon pose for a photo during the medal ceremony for the women's shot put F55-57 at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Athletics

Nigeria wraps up Birmingham 2022 with more gold

Eucharia Iyiazi triumphs in shot put while England’s Nathan Maguire emulates girlfriend Hannah Cockroft’s victory as Commonwealth Games concludes

Athletics

Nigeria's Nwachukwu delights the crowd at Birmingham 2022

Discus thrower sets new record as Alexander Stadium witnesses gold medals from Australia (twice), South Africa and Wales on Wednesday and Thursday

Three female wheelchair racers on a blue track in a crowded stadium

Athletics

Hannah Cockroft adds Birmingham 2022 gold medal to her CV

Wheelchair racer leads England podium sweep as first evening of track events at the Commonwealth Games sees another English triumph and win for Wales

A female wheelchair racer after crossing the line in a blue track

Athletics

Birmingham 2022: Hannah Cockroft eyes gold to complete medal set

Para athletics takes over Alexander Stadium with 10 medals up for grabs and local star hoping to make a new legacy 10 years after the London Paralympics