PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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Women’s World Challenge: Where are they now
A closer look at some of the stars from the first edition last year in Green Bay
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IPC Media and Marketing Summit takes place in Paris
Planning for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, more than 350 experts attended the meeting in the French capital
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Paralympics a 'catalyst for progress': French Minister for Persons with Disabilities
Speaking at the 2023 IPC Media and Marketing Summit, Geneviève Darrieussecq said Paris 2024 volunteers, media and athletes will be ambassadors for change
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Manchester 2023: joy of swimming key to Firth's success
One of the stars of the host nation she will be defending three individual titles in her fourth participation at the Para Swimming World Championships
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Paris 23: Stars align on magical final day
Newcomers shine, defending champions save best for last and Para athletics legends collect more gold as Para Athletics Worlds wraps up in the French capital
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Para Athletics Worlds open door to more Para sports fans a year before Paris 2024
With just over a year until the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Para athletes said they loved competing in front of a vocal crowd at the Para Athletics World Championships. For many spectators, the event introduced them to the attractions of the sport
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Paris 23: Sandilands pulls surprise, Sliwinska continues to impress
British runner makes winning Worlds debut, Polish thrower adds world title to Paralympic win in morning of thrilling throwing and jump finals on Monday
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Japan's Oda becomes the youngest man ever to win a Wimbledon title
Japanese wheelchair tennis sensation Tokito Oda defeated two-time Paralympian Alfie Hewett in the men's singles final. Diede De Groot won the women's singles, and Niel Vinks won the quad singles in Wimbledon
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Paris 23: Cockroft and Lemos double up with Sunday win
Colombian triumphs in rollercoaster shot put final while British wheelchair racer shows she is still the one to beat; Japan takes universal relay gold
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How sprinters with vision impairment and their guides compete in sync
We asked Paralympic medallists competing at the Paris 23 Para Athletics World Championships to share their secrets
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Paris 23: Sunday best for Carabin, Legnante and Rodriguez
Belgian wheelchair racer bags second gold in his Worlds debut, Italian throwing legend extends her legacy and Ecuadorian jumper smashes world record
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Paris 23: Ghavelas and Debrunner shine on super Saturday
Greek adds world title to Paralympic gold, Swiss star takes fourth win as Lakatos gives Canada first triumph and Brazil closes gap to China on medals table
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Paris 23: Kathuniya supports new talent after Paralympic debut
Indian discus thrower Kathuniya claimed the silver medal in the men’s discus throw F56 event at Tokyo 2020.
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Paris 23: Djelal takes elusive gold in style
Algerian Paralympic champion wins first world title with new world record in a morning of first triumph for Argentina and second for Australia's Turner
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Paris 23: Magnificent Markus Rehm makes it six
German jumper breaks championships record to add one more world title to his impressive collection one year before the Paralympics in the French capital
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IPC President meets French President Macron in Paris
International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Andrew Parsons met French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris to discuss the preparations and the transformational impact of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, which will take place between 28 August and 8 September 2024
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Paris 23: Italy’s ‘Charlie’s Angels’ open new chapter in friendship
Ambra Sabatini led Italy’s 1-2-3 finish at the Para Athletics World Championships, followed by Martina Caironi and Monica Contrafatto
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Paris 23: Dening Zhu saves the best for last on Bastille Day
Chinese long jumper defends his title in a morning session which saw Iran's Saeid Afrooz set a new world record and more gold from legends Hug and Tlili
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A special Indian showing in Osijek
Paraympic star Lekhara leads the way for Indian team that ended with 18 medals, even as Vadovicova and Txakartegi shone in the World Cup
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Paris 23: A day of podium sweeps and a new high jump star
Jumper Ezra Frech breaks world record twice to take his first world title; Ambra Sabatini and Hannah Cockroft lead Italian and British triple podiums