More than 4,000 athletes with physical, vision and intellectual impairments will compete in 22 sports during the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. Within those 22 sports, there will be 549 medal events.

When British swimmer Chloe Davies, 13, found out she had qualified for the London 2012 Paralympics, she screamed with delight and sprinted up and down the stairs of her family’s home in Somerset, ...

Mac Russell loves coastal rowing. He says it offers a level of unpredictability that you just don't get on flat water. The size of the swell, the sun reflected off the waves, the morphing ocean floor ...

In Astana, Kazakhstan, a crowd erupted as Australia’s men’s team sealed gold in the 5x5 final at the 2025 Virtus World Basketball Championships. But for athletes with intellectual disabilities, this ...

Scroll through a few posts on the Paralympics' social media pages and you might notice some interesting discourse in the comment section. Among excitement over athlete success and emojis conveying ...

PARIS (AP) — Being the follow-up act to the Paris Olympics is no easy task, but the Paralympic Games that begin Wednesday promise to offer up their own fair share of memorable sporting moments. This ...

The grant for $25,000 was awarded to Adaptive Sports Ohio through Bridgestone Americas, a longtime Olympic and Paralympic ...

PARIS, France — Being the follow-up act to the Paris Olympics is no easy task, but the Paralympic Games that begin Wednesday promise to offer up their own fair share of memorable sporting moments.

Christie Raleigh Crossley had a dream of swimming at the highest levels. A car accident and then a tumor delayed that dream, but now she's a Paralympic medalist. The 37-year-old from Toms River, New ...

With the Paris 2024 Paralympics well under way, we take a look at how the classification system works in para-sport – and how are athletes’ classifications defined? The idea behind classifications is ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jaime Schultz, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) More than 4,000 athletes with physical, ...