PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Top medal highlights from Day 1
Italy leads the way in the pool with eight Para swimming medals

Khudadadi wins first-ever medal for Refugee Paralympic Team
Khudadadi earned bronze in the women’s K44 -47kg division at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, becoming the first Refugee Paralympic Team athlete to win a medal

Paris 2024: Ugo Didier electrifies Para swimming arena with Paralympic gold
Twenty-two year old takes his first Paralympic title in the first final of the Paris 2024 Para swimming programme at Paris La Denfense Arena beating Italy's Simone Barlaam and Australia's world record holder Brenden Hall in the men's 400m freestyle S9; Great Britain's Poppy Maskill and China's Chen Yi set new world records on day one

Jurgen Klopp says Paralympics can ‘change the world’
Klopp watched his friend Wojtek Czyz compete in Para badminton on day one of Paris 2024

Paris 2024: The stars to watch on day one morning session
The largest sport of the Paralympic programme comes to Stade de France with six medal events opening the programme on Friday morning with the women's discus F55, men's 5000m T11, women's shot put F41, women's long jump T11, men's javelin F38 and women's 100m T35

Paris 2024 Paralympics: Shooting Para sport day one preview
Here you can find the complete schedule and the main stars to follow on day one in the Chateauroux Shooting Centre at Paris 2024

Para cyclist Groot wins first gold medal of Games
Caroline Groot of the Netherlands won gold in the Para cycling track but is quitting to become a lawyer

Athletes captivated by Opening Ceremony
France’s first Paralympic Games opened in spectacular style and competitors relished the carnival atmosphere

Big moments on Day 1
Celebrity fans including Jurgen Klopp and Jackie Chan spotted at venues across Paris 2024

Para athletics set to wow fans at Stade de France
China aim to lead the way in the biggest ever carnival of Para athletics at the Paralympic Games

World champ de La Forest aims for first medal in sixth Games
The Frenchman hopes for success on home soil in an intriguing shooting Para sport competition

First medals and a chance of history on Day 1
Para athletes get down to business as team sports and taekwondo open the day followed by the first medals in cycling and swimming

First Paralympics in France open with stunning ceremony
The Opening Ceremony for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games took place in the Place de la Concorde and the Champs-Elysees, kicking off 11 days of Para sport excitement

The world is watching - in record numbers!
All 22 sports will be available live for the first time in history

Paris 2024: Day one preview, schedule and ones to watch
Fifteen Paralympic champions to be crowned at Paris La Defense Arena as Para swimming gets underway on Thursday, including France's medal hopefuls Alex Portal and Ugo Didier, who will be facing Italian star Simone Barlaam in the men's 400m freestyle S9

Flagbearers announced for Opening Ceremony
The flagbearers will lead their nations into the Place de la Concorde

Paris 2024: 21 powerlifters set to be in action as flagbearers
Malaysia's Bonnie Bunyau Gustin, Jordan's Abdelkareem Khattab, Mongolia's Sodnompiljee Enkhbayar and Egyptian Rehab Ahmed among others have been named as country's flag bearers at the Opening Ceremony

IPC and UNESCO call for more inclusive society
The two organisations have staged an inclusion conference to discuss how Para sport can advance the rights and opportunities of persons with disabilities

Liberte, égalité, fraternite!
International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons calls for freedom, inclusion and equality in his speech at the Paris 2024 Paralympics Opening Ceremony. Read his speech in full below.