Joel Gomez’s accolades as a Para distance runner are significant, but they’re just part of his world-class balancing act.The 21-year-old Gomez, who is legally blind, finished seventh in the men’s 1,500-meter T13 for Team USA at the Paralympic Games Par...
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA – USA Track & Field today announced the 2025 USATF Para National Championships, which will take place at the renowned Hayward Field at the University of Oregon from July 31-August 2, 2025. The event will be the first time in U...
INDIANAPOLIS – Following an unprecedented 2024 season that saw both a Paralympic Games and a world championships contested, USA Track & Field today announced the 62 athletes and two guides named to its 2025 Tier athlete program. The roster is compo...
Catarina Guimaraes was making the final preparations for her ultimate dream — competing in two track-and-field events at the Paralympic Games Paris 2024 — when she received an email. It was an invite for a U.S. women’s national CP soccer team camp in I...
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO – Following the 2024 season, 46 high school track and field athletes have been named to the annual U.S. Paralympics Track & Field High School All-American team, the organization announced today. The list ...
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...
