Every time U.S. Paralympic guide runner Jerome Avery hears the national anthem, he thinks of his late father, who served in the Navy and whom he shares a name with. So as the anthem played to open the ...
HOYT (KSNT) – When Dustin Gunter was 8 years old, he suffered a traumatic brain injury in an ATV accident, leaving the entire left side of his body paralyzed. Gunter spent months in a wheelchair, ...
Italian transgender athlete Valentina Petrillo failed to reach the final of the women’s T12 400 meters for visually impaired runners after finishing third in her semifinal at the Paralympic Games on ...
Many Paralympic athletes face major funding gaps. Here's how Ali Truwit's $400,000 gift, as well as increased sponsorships ...
(NEXSTAR) – A couple of Paralympic athletes will soon be running to the altar together. Keula Nidreia Pereira Semedo, a visually impaired sprinter competing for Cape Verde, didn’t manage to qualify ...
Joel Gomez, a 22-year-old Paralympic runner from Encinitas, recently won gold at the 2025 Para Athletics World Championships in New Delhi, India in the 1500 meters with a time of 3:57.71. Gomez was ...
Johannesburg — South African former Olympic and paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius has competed in his first race 12 years after murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius, a double leg ...