Tatyana McFadden celebrates victory at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.Athletics events have been a part of the Paralympic program since the first Paralympic Games in Rome, Italy, in 1960 and is the biggest sport within the Paralympic Movement in terms o...
Alexa Halko preps for the start of a race at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.U.S. Paralympics has developed U.S. athlete ranking lists based on validated performances. These ranking lists reflect marks accomplished at any track and field competition. Som...
Everything sunk in for Blake Leeper during the Closing Ceremony of the Paralympic Games Paris 2024.When Leeper accepted the Paralympic flag alongside Los Angles Mayor Karen Bass, suddenly every sacrifice he’d made in the last 12 years felt worth it.“I ...
Hannah Dederick has been involved in the elite wheelchair racing scene since she was in middle school. From the start of her racing career back in 2015 with ParaSport Spokane in Washington, to competing in the Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, Dederick has ...
Breaking a world record is nothing new to Noelle Malkamaki.Heading into the Paralympic Games Paris 2024, the Decatur, Illinois, native had already done it at three major competitions. So, for her Paralympic debut, she set out to not just break her own ...
Desmond Jackson was only 16 when he represented Team USA at the Paralympic Games Rio 2016 as the youngest male athlete on the track and field team.It was a feat that only existed as a distant dream a decade prior.“I grew up in a single-parent household...
Indianapolis, IN – October 30, 2024 – USA Track & Field (USATF) and the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) are excited to announce that, beginning January 1, 2025, the U.S. Paralympics Track & Field program will become par...
Never stand between Lindi Marcusen, her husband Nate, and the start line of a race.“When people ask me how supportive Nate is, I tell them this story,” said Marcusen, an above-the-knee amputee sprinter and jumper.In February, the couple traveled to the...
Tatyana McFadden didn’t have anything to prove at the Paralympic Games Paris 2024.The wheelchair racing legend had already won 20 medals across six Paralympics — with her 19 track-and-field medals by far the most of any active U.S. Paralympian.However,...
In Jaydin Blackwell’s first international meet, he won a pair of world titles in the men’s 100-meter and 400-meter T38 events, setting a world record in the latter.That debut performance at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships last July set expe...
