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Disability and sport

The latest news and comment on disabled people in sport

November 2024

  • Athletes Zac Shaw and Ali Smith at the Buckingham Palace reception.

    Fortnum & Mason apologises for party snub to UK Paralympians

    Olympians and Paralympians attended a Buckingham Palace reception, but only the former were asked to a following event hosted by the luxury food retailer
  • Matt Stutzman’s Paralympic career stretches back to London 2012

    ‘My drag racing career is taking off’: a Paralympic hero’s next steps

    Matt Stutzman, Team USA’s self-described ‘armless archer’, wants to follow up gold with a move into a new sport
  • Italy's Valentina Petrillo (left) during the women's T12 400m semi-final at the Paris Paralympics.

    Paralympian Valentina Petrillo hits back after JK Rowling ‘cheat’ claims

  • Guo Jincheng of China dives in

    The Guardian picture essay
    The best Paralympic images by Tom Jenkins – a photo essay

  • Clockwise from top left: Catherine Debrunner, Zakia Khudadadi, Lauren Rowles, Gabriel Araújo.

    Ten Paralympic stars who lit up the Paris 2024 Games

  • Members of the ParalympicsGB team pose as they arrive back in the UK via Eurostar at St Pancras.

    ParalympicsGB talks up LA Games amid US presidential election fears

  • Daniel Pembroke of Team Great Britain lets the javelin fly during the F13 competition.

    ‘I’ve never cheered harder’: readers’ memorable moments from Paris Paralympics

  • Arjola Dedaj of Italy competes in the women's long jump T11 class while wearing a butterfly blindfold

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘Defying expectations’: amazing Paralympic photographers with disabilities

  • The US doesn’t dominate the Paralympics as it does the Olympics. Does it matter?

  • Highs, lows and rapture: the Guardian’s most memorable Paris Paralympic moments

  • Australia finish ninth on Paralympics medal table after Madison de Rozario claims silver

  • Paris gives Paralympic Games a send-off for the ages

  • French athletes and a flag-bearer during the parade in the stadium.

    Paris 2024 Paralympics closing ceremony: spectacular show ends summer of sport – as it happened

  • Hannah Cockroft (centre) and Kare Adenegan (left) with Eva Houston after the women's 800m T34

    Britain finish second in Paralympics medal table with ‘incredible’ 49 golds

  • Rose Hollermann of United States in action with Mariska Beijer of Netherlands in the women’s basketball final.

    Paris 2024 Paralympics: Netherlands beat USA to basketball gold, canoeing glory for GB on final day – as it happened

  • David Weir of Great Britain exits the Champs Elysees in the men's T54 marathon.

    David Weir retires from Paralympics after missing out on marathon medal

  • Paris Paralympics 2024: day 11 – in pictures

  • Channel 4’s Paralympics coverage pulls in more than 18m viewers

  • Paris Paralympics 2024: A closer look – in pictures

  • ‘Incredible energy’: how Paris crowds lifted French paralympians to medal glory

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