World Para Athletics has announced a provisional calendar for the 2021 season, with seven Para Athletics Grand Prix events confirmed.
A bust of seven-time Paralympic medallist Mokhtar Nourafshan has been unveiled at Iran's Hall of Fame.
Japanese visually impaired runner Misato Michishita has broken the women's world record in her classification, after competing at the Hofu Yomiuri Marathon in her home Yamaguchi prefecture.
Sebastiana Lopez, a Para-javelin thrower from the United States, has been handed a four-year ban by the International Paralympic Committee for an anti-doping violation.
The Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB) has partnered with video-sharing social networking service TikTok to hold two live events with its athletes.
World Para Athletics has opened the bidding process for the 2023 and 2025 World Championships, with National Paralympic Committees and National Federations encouraged to apply.
The Organising Committee of the Kobe 2022 World Para Athletics Championships has unveiled its official logo for the competition.
Paralympic sprinter Blake Leeper has appealed a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling that upheld World Athletics' decision to ban him from competing against able-bodied athletes to the Swiss Supreme Court.
The Association for the Promotion of German Para Athletics has been founded in Stuttgart.
World Para Athletics has launched a membership consultation on the medal programme for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
Two-time Paralympian high jumper Aaron Chatman, who won two Paralympic medals in the discipline, has announced his retirement at the age of 33.
Costa Rican Para-sprinter Sherman Guity could miss next year's postponed Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games because of an unintentional doping violation.
Hollie Arnold, Britain’s Rio 2016 Paralympic javelin champion, says she wants her appearance in reality television show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! - which is due to start on on ITV on Sunday (November 15) – to put the focus on achievement rather than disability.
Kenya's Paralympic 5,000 metres champion Henry Kirwa will switch to contesting marathons after competing at Tokyo 2020.
June Steenkamp said she "shook with anger" after the BBC released a trailer for a new Oscar Pistorius documentary series which failed to name her daughter Reeva.
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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