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Marathon wraps up Para athletics on final day of the Paralympics
The final medals in Para athletics, powerlifting, canoe and wheelchair basketball will be awarded on Day 11 before Paris 2024 comes to an end with the Closing Ceremony

Paris 2024: Powerlifting Day Five Preview
Iranians Aliakbar Gharibshahi and Aminzadeh Ahmad and Nigeria's Loveline Obiji and Folashade Oluwafemiayo among others to follow on Sunday at the La Chapelle Arena, day five of powerlifting programme at Paris 2024 Games

France win blind football gold on magical night
France's blind football team won the country's first-ever Paralympic gold with a win over Argentina and the support of a boisterous crowd at Eiffel Tower Stadium

Oda continues writing history with Paralympic gold
Japanese becomes the youngest Paralympic wheelchair tennis men’s singles champion after beating world No. 1 Alfie Hewett in a dramatic final

Paris 2024: Gritty Khattab improves world record with massive lift
Jordan's Abdelkareem Khattab clinches second Paralympic gold with massive 270kg; China's Han Miaoyu made Paralympic debut with world record show in women's up to 79kg, Brazil's Mariana D'Andrea dedicates women's up to 73kg gold to father, while China's Yan Panpan wins men's up to 88kg final with Games records at La Chapelle Arena on penultimate day

Paris 2024: Yuyan grabs seventh gold, Long takes 18th title on last day
The Chinese 'Flying Fish' finishes the Games as the most successful athlete of Paris 2024 following her victory in the women's 100m backstroke S6, USA Para swimming legend looks in disbelief after the win in the women’s 100m butterfly S8 at another packed evening at La Defense Arena

‘Flying Fish’ Jiang secures 7th Para swimming gold
Jiang took her final gold on Para swimming's final night at Paris 2024, beating USA's reigning champion Ellie Marks

Paris 2024: Soares breaks Marla Runyan's 29-year-old world record
Brazilian sprinter takes her first Paralympic gold beating the mark set by five-time Games champion USA legend who also competed in the Olympic Games in the final morning session of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games at Stade de France

Australian Curtis McGrath continues golden legacy
Australian Curtis McGrath has won his third consecutive gold medal in the men’s kayak

Indonesia impress on Paralympic boccia debut
Medals galore for Indonesia at Paris 2024 in their first time competing in boccia, as all four of the team land on the podium in their first Games

Refugee Team leaves with historic medals and lasting legacy
Zakia Khudadadi and Guillaume Junior Atangana dedicate Paralympic podiums to ‘refugees around the world’

IPC recognises representatives for success of Paralympics
Paralympic Games Appreciation Awarded given to organisers and supporters of Paris 2024

Top medal moments on Day 10
Rayane Soares da Silva of Brazil smashes 29-year-old record on the track

Paris 2024: Fitting farewell for Durand, Caironi on dramatic evening
Cuba's Omara Durand made it golden treble winning women's 200m T11 finals, while Martina Caironi won her first gold since Rio 2016 - clinching women's 100m T63 final after Tokyo 2020 Paralympic champion Ambra Sabatini fell colliding with Monica Graziana Contrafatto who was subsequently awarded joint bronze medal at Stade de France on day nine

Barlaam reunited with Paris surgeon who saved his leg
Italian Para swimmer wins Paris 2024 gold on Friday watched by the man who performed revolutionary operation on him as a teenager

Blind football history will be written on Day 10
Day 10 of Paris 2024 promises must-watch action in blind football, wheelchair tennis and Para swimming among many other key moments

Iran claims eighth men's sitting volleyball gold
A 3-1 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina gave Iran their eighth Paralympic men's sitting volleyball gold medal, with Morteza Mehrzadselakjani leading Iran in points

Paris 2024: Hunter Woodhall claims first gold medal at Paralympic Games
USA sprinter triumphs in the men's 400m T62 and celebrates with wife Tara Davis-Woodhall who won Olympic long jump gold in the same Stade de France few weeks ago; China breaks the 4x100m universal relay world record en route to gold with Woodhall helping USA take bronze in the event

Paris 2024: Gustin, Rostami, Mark and Yujiao shine with world records
Malaysia's Bonnie Bunyau Gustin improves own world record enroute to retaining Paralympic gold so does China's Tan Yujiao and Iran's Roohallah Rostami; Nigeria's Onyinyechi Mark win gold in debut Games; Mexico's Amalia Perez becomes most medalled athlete in Para powerlifting history with seven medals at La Chapelle Arena of day four

Emotional Kamiji clinches gold in memorable wheelchair tennis final
Japan's Yui Kamiji defeated Dutch wheelchair tennis player Diede de Groot to earn her first women's singles Paralympic title