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Festival of fun brings France's first Paralympics to a close
Paris celebrates an unforgettable 10 days of competition with stunning Closing Ceremony at Stade de France

The IPC President's Closing Ceremony speech
International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons hails the record-breaking achievements of Para athletes, volunteers, fans and organisers of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

The world records that tumbled in Paris
More than 40 world records tumbled in Para athletics alone at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Top medal moments on Day 11
Para powerlifter Oluwafemiayo breaks world record not once, but twice, to win women's over 86kg gold

Netherlands retain wheelchair basketball crown
Women’s team see off challenge from USA to reign supreme at Paris 2024 Paralympics

“Everything we dreamed of happened”
“My message to fans is a huge, enormous ‘merci beaucoup’ because after the athletes, they were the big stars of the Games,” - International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons

Paris 2024: Debrunner wins marathon to take fifth gold of the Games
Swiss wheelchair racer becomes most successful Para athletics athlete of this year's Paralympics, Hug adds more gold to Switzerland in the men's marathon T54 as Morocco's Fatima El Idrissi sets new world record and Tunisia's Wajdi Boukhili beats three-time champion Chentouf, respectively in the women's and men's T12

'Nothing about us without us' say IPC Comms team
30 per cent of the IPC Comms team at Paris 2024 recognise themselves as persons with disability

Paralympians propose in the ‘City of Love’
Happy tears flowed as Paralympians chose Paris to become engaged

Hug and Debrunner cement Swiss Para marathon dominance
Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner took gold for Switzerland to bring the Paris 2024 Para athletics to a close

Jawad supports Para powerlifting friends
The retired Great British athlete was invited to open Para powerlifting event with three 'Coups de Baton'

Meet Hunter and Tara - Paris 2024's golden couple
Team USA Paralympian Hunter Woodhall and his wife, Olympian Tara Davis-Woodhall, both won Paris 2024 gold at the Stade de France

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