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The 2024 Summer Paralympics was an international parasports event held in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September 2024. The event featured around 4400 athletes across 22 different sports. [ 1 ] In total, 80 World records and 120 Paralympic records have been broken in the event.
Australian runner Jaryd Clifford says he is “devastated” after being disqualified from a Paralympic event over the weekend. Clifford, 25, finished third in the men’s 5000-meter T13 final Aug ...
Jaydin Blackwell celebrates after winning the men's 100-meter T13 final and setting a new world record during the 2024 Paris Paralympic Summer Games at the Stade de France in Paris on Aug. 31, 2024.
When she was 17, Jana was in a motorcycle crash which resulted in her breaking her back and leaving both of her legs paralysed. [1] Jana first participated in the Paralympic Games in 2004 where she won a gold medal in the Épée B event and a bronze medal in the Foil B event. This made her Thailand's first female Paralympic gold medalist.
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games , which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea , have been held shortly after the corresponding Olympic Games .
Hayayei competed at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, placing seventh in the men’s shot put F34 and sixth in the men’s javelin F34. UK Athletics and Davies will appear at Westminster Magistrates ...
In 2015, he set a new world record when he hit a target from a remarkable 283.47 meters (930.04 feet) away, breaking the previous mark that had been set by an able-bodied person.
Breaking was introduced at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris as an optional (temporary) sport. Despite the United States being the birthplace of breakdancing, the sport is not set to be included at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles; on its omittance in the latter, the IOC's sports director Kit McConnell stated that "It's up to each local organizing committee to determine which ...