Paralympic sprinter Blake Leeper has failed with his last attempt at being able to compete alongside able-bodied athletes at the delayed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected his appeal against a ruling from World Athletics.
The European Para Athletics Championships in Bydgoszcz produced a final world record today as Hungary’s Luca Ekler won the women’s 400 metres T38 final in 1min 00.27sec.
A day after breaking her own world record in the women’s 100 metres T64 category, Dutch phenomenon Fleur Jong produced successive world records in the women’s long jump T64 at the European Para Athletics Championships in Bydgoszcz.
Dutch sprinter Fleur Jong and Italian long jumper Martina Caironi set world records on day three of the European Para Athletics Championships in Bydgoszcz.
Two Russian Federation athletes tied the world record in the men’s 100 metres T35 on a second day that saw plenty of records set at the European Para Athletics Championships in Bydgoszcz.
Germany’s Markus Rehm produced one of the all-time great Para athletic performances on the opening day of the European Para Athletics Championships in Bydgoszcz as he shattered his own T64 long jump world record with a mark of 8.62 metres.
Nearly 700 competitors from 44 teams are expected to be involved in the seventh edition of the European Para Athletics Championships which start tomorrow in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz and conclude on Saturday (June 5).
Three-time Paralympic champion Marie-Amelie Le Fur is among nine new members of France’s athletics team for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) has announced six new members to its athletics team for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, including two debutants.
Home athlete Manuela Schär earned her third win at the World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Nottwil as she triumphed in the talent-stacked women’s T54 400 metres race today.
The Netherlands' Fleur Jong has smashed the women's long jump F62 world record by 81 centimetres on the second day of competition at the World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Nottwil in Switzerland.
Britain’s Hannah Cockroft set a women’s 800 metres T34 world record at the World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Nottwil, Switzerland today in her first international race since 2019.
Seven-time Paralympic champion Tatyana McFadden of the United States is set to make her first World Para Athletics Grand Prix appearance for more than 18 months when Nottwil in Switzerland hosts the latest event on the circuit this week.
Two Asian records were broken as 120 Japanese Para athletes followed their Olympic team mates into the renovated National Stadium for their own Ready Steady Tokyo test event ahead of the Paralympics that are due to open on August 24.
Para athletics is set to take centre stage at the National Stadium in Tokyo as preparations continue for the rescheduled Paralympic Games.
Canadian show jumper Ian Millar holds the record for the most Olympic appearances by an athlete in any sport. When he competed at London 2012 at the age of 65 it was the tenth time he had competed in the Games since making his debut 30 years earlier at Munich 1972. He had won his only Olympic medal at Beijing 2008 when he was part of Canada’s team that took silver in the team jumping event. Millar won a gold medal in the Pan American Games team jumping event at Toronto 2015. He announced his retirement in 2019.
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