Salum Ageze Kashafali clocked the quickest 100 metres time in Paralympic Games history here in Tokyo before reflecting on his life as a refugee.

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United States 54-49 in a hotly contested final ©Getty ImagesNorway's Salum Ageze Kashafali ended the athletics

From time to time athletics witnesses landmark contests where more than one competitor betters an existing

took silver with 8.19m.In celebrating the 50th anniversary of Beamon’s leap for the ages, the World Athletics

site included some of the contemporary reportage produced by the hugely respected athletics journalist

knew they had been privileged to see perhaps the greatest single achievement in the entire history of athletics

competition.The main NBC commentator involved, Dwight Stones, knew all the tips and wrinkles of the athletics

Speaking to World Athletics earlier this year, Powell recalled his day of days."

A six strong delegation managed by the Tonga Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (TASANOC) that competed at Tokyo 2020 faces a long wait in New Zealand after their flight home was cancelled due to a change in COVID-19 restrictions.

general Takitoa Taumoepeau, Chef de Mission Amanaki Fakakovikaetau, swim official Vila Day and athletics

Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala "more than ever" is happy that the city will stage the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, following Italy's successful campaign at Tokyo 2020.

Italy won five athletics gold medals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics ©Getty ImagesSala also thanked the Italian

Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw broke the half marathon world record in a time of 63min 43sec in the Antrim Coast Half Marathon.

Denis Gnezdilov won shot put F40 gold at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, with a world record throw of 11.16 metres, edging out the competition by the narrowest of margins in a dramatic final.

events restricted to men under 130cm, only took up the sport in 2015 after being introduced to it by an athletics

in Sochi.Within four years, he won shot put F40 gold at the 2019 International Paralympic Committee Athletics

Olympic champions Armand Duplantis, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Hansle Parchment, all beaten in Lausanne on Thursday (August 26) night, re-asserted themselves in style here today with emphatic victories at the Paris Diamond League meeting.

in history.The Rio 2016 800m silver medallist, who has moved up the distances in keeping with World Athletics

The President of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al-Thani has said the country achieved its aim of writing "a new chapter in the history of Qatari sport" after winning two gold medals and a bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Qatar’s capital Doha hosted the World Athletics Championships in 2019, and has been awarded the Asian

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Afghan athletes Zakia Khudadadi and Hossain Rasouli have arrived in Tokyo as they look set to compete at the Paralympic Games here, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has confirmed.

 Rasouli will line-up in the heats of the men’s T47 400 metres athletics event a day later.The duo's

Poland’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medallist Kajetan Duszyński is an ambassador for the 2022 European Universities Games in Łódź and believes the event will be an important one for the thousands of student-athletes taking part.

4x400m relay at the 2019 Summer Universiade in Naples, and two silvers in the relay at the European Athletics

Britain's Thomas Young and Sophie Hahn ended the second day of athletics at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic

#Athletics #Paralympics @AthleticsNZ pic.twitter.com/jBoS3pyOCh— Oceania Athletics (@OceaniaAths)

Aleksandr Iaremchuk is the men’s T46 1500 metres Paralympic champion after triumphing in a close final at Tokyo 2020.

in Poland in June 2021 in a championship record of 3:51.91, and clinched a bronze at the World Para Athletics

in 2014 and Cable in the United States a year later.He was born in Shangaly, where he took up Para athletics

and is now based in Saint Petersburg.Iaremchuk is missing his left forearm, with T46 races in Para athletics

He holds the titles of Master of Sport of International Class in both Para athletics and Para Nordic

Double Olympic 100 metres champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, whose winning time of 10.54sec in Eugene last Saturday (August 21) was the second-fastest time ever, will seek to maintain her breath-taking form here tomorrow as the Diamond League moves on to the French capital.

medallist from Burundi, Francine Niyonsaba, who is precluded from running her specialist event under World Athletics