At just 17, she won gold at the Tokyo Paralympic Games in world record fashion ... Thanks to Pergolini, the U.S. moved into 10th place in the overall medal count, with one gold and six silver medals.

There were 528 medal events across 22 sports and 83 countries won at least one Paralympic medal, more than any other previous ... who travelled at high speed down a 17-metre-high ramp, the equivalent ...

US President Ronald Reagan officially opened the Games in New York on 17 June in Mitchell ... in two different locations, one in Europe and the other in North America. This meant there were two unique ...

She combined athletics and academics with great success, studying molecular biology at the University of Arizona, then medicine at Stanford Medical School, while winning seven Paralympic medals ...

"My husband encouraged me to do one more bike race before deciding if I wanted ... I just tried my hardest.” This marks the 30th Paralympic medal for Long after winning gold 17 times, silver eight ...

Russian swimmer Dmitrii Cherniaev has won a gold medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games ... also stressed that dedollarisation has been one of the defining global economic trends, "which ...

Australia will once again aim to be one of the top nations at the ... Ellie Cole also became Australia's lead female Paralympic medalist with 17 medals over four games.

Andrew Cassell, who has died aged 82, was a disabled sailor who, despite being born without legs and with deformed hips, ...