Your day-by-day guide to what is happening when - and who to watch out for - at the Paris 2024 Paralympics.
The Paris Paralympics are fast approaching and you can plan how to follow the 11 days of competition with our day-by-day guide - all times BST.
The velodrome was a happy hunting ground for the GB team at the Olympics and the Paralympic team will hope for similar., who created history in Rio by winning golds in both cycling and athletics, goes in the women’s C4-5 500m time trial , aiming to retain her title after a turbulent build-up which has included a calf injury and a relapse of her MS.is a strong medal contender in the C1-3 individual pursuit . She is world champion in the C2 division but the Paris event is a combined one.
The illness left her in a coma and after she came out of it, she had to learn how to walk again as well as dealing with the impact of her sight loss. In March, her partner Jude Hamer, who has represented GB in wheelchair basketball at the Paralympics, gave birth to their son Noah and Rowles has been passionate in speaking about sexuality, diversity and representation.;;;will hope to figure in the final of the SL3 event with defending champion Pramod Bhagat out after being suspended by the Court of Arbitration for Sport for a whereabouts failure.
His current world record stands at 8.72m – the ninth longest jump of all time. His 2024 best is 8.44m – a distance which would have won Olympic silver in Paris and gold at the previous four Games.As well as standard racing bikes with modifications where required and tandems, the Para-cycling road programme also features handcycling and trike races.
The name comes from the Italian word for ‘ball’ and the sport made its Paralympic debut in 1984 and is played by athletes from more than 70 countries.;;goes for another Paralympic gold as she bids to retain her title in the C4-5 road race while Tokyo silver medallists Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl will aim to go one better in the Women’s B race withwill be hoping to regain her T46 javelin crown after finishing third in Tokyo before winning two world titles in 2023 and 2024.
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