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4-7 September

PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

A picture of man in a wheelchair playing a forehand in a tennis match
Wheelchair Tennis

For the first time ever the USA will host the wheelchair tennis singles and doubles masters events in November.

A picture of a woman showing her gold medal
2013 IPC Athletics World Championships

Tatyana McFadden aims to become first woman to win titles in one para-athletics events

Brent Lakatos at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships Lyon
2013 IPC Athletics World Championships

Read what the athletes had to say after the seventh day of competition

Hug takes Lyon 2013 marathon gold
2013 IPC Athletics World Championships

Hug and Schaer seal T54 World Championship marathon titles

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Athletics

London’s Olympic Stadium celebrated its first birthday tonight with two world- leading marks and a Bolt of Lightning.

Popow vs Reardon men's 100m T42 Lyon 2013
2013 IPC Athletics World Championships

Popow and Reardon to share gold after sensational 100m battle.

Alan Fonteles Oliveira winning the 200m T43 in Lyon
2013 IPC Athletics World Championships

Brazilian sprint king Oliveira goes in search of his third world title

Marlou van Rhijn
2013 IPC Athletics World Championships

Marlou van Rhijn makes it double gold.

A picture of men running on a track
London 2012

More than a dozen world champions set to compete at London Anniversary Games.

Tatyana McFadden
2013 IPC Athletics World Championships

McFadden the master as she wins her fourth and fifth world titles.

A picture of a chinese woman showing her gold medal
2013 IPC Athletics World Championships

Ni Ma wins second gold medal of the Championships.

Alan Fonteles Oliveira winning the 200m T43 in Lyon

Brazilian sprint king is aiming for third world title in Lyon.

Adam Hall
Sochi 2014

New Zealand’s Paralympic champion and Team GB’s Heather Mills among stars set to shine at Audi quattro Winter Games NZ 2013.

Women's T43/T44 World records infographic as of 18 July 2013
2013 IPC Athletics World Championships

April Holmes, Marie-Amelie Le Fur, Marlou van Rhijn, Marcel Hug, and Alan Fonteles Oliveira are all in action at IPC Athletics World Championships.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Rwanda, Senegal and the Central African Republic all set for low-cost racing chairs

Michelle Stilwell
2013 IPC Athletics World Championships

South Africa's Ilse Hayes won the long jump F13 and Canada's Michelle Stilwell claimed gold in the 800m T52 race at the IPC Athletics World Championships.

Czech Republic ice sledge hockey team
Sochi 2014

Ahead of the Sochi 2014 Test Event, the Czech Republic’s ice sledge hockey team realise the next Paralympics could be their last together as a core group.

Mandy Francois-Elie sprinting on a tartan track leading the field.
Athletics

French favourites Mandy Francois-Elie and Marie-Amelie le Fur, as well as Belgium’s Marieke Vervoort and Canada’s Michelle Stilwell will be in action.

Odair Santos
2013 IPC Athletics World Championships

Read what the athletes had to say after they came off the track and field

Darragh McDonald at London 2012
2013 IPC Swimming World Championships

Six athletes, all from London 2012, return to international competition at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Champs.