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China and the Russian Paralympic Committee finished atop the medal table at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. The overall medal race easily belonged to the Chinese juggernaut, with 19 goals, 19 silvers and 18 bronze medals, the most in each category. It took home 56 total medals. That fits with the overal...

Paralympic Games, Day 4: Mykhailo Serbin, Gabriel Araujo Take Down World Records The swimming portion of the Paralympic Games continued Sunday with 14 gold-medal finals held inside La Défense Arena, and the highlight of the day was Ukraine's Mykhailo Serbin taking down his own world record in the me...

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, August 8. NORWAY'S Sarah Louise Rung cemented her position as one of the world's best para-swimmers on Friday (8 August) with her fourth gold of the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The 24-year-old (2:53.75) six-time world champio...

Paralympics (Day 10 Men): Evan Austin, Robert Griswold End Games with Golds Evan Austin and Robert Griswold set American records to grab gold on the final night of the Tokyo Paralympics on Friday. Austin had a race on his hands in the men’s S7 50 butterfly, a race where .72 seconds separated the top...

Six world records fell on Saturday night at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships in London as the final day will conclude on Sunday. Wang Lichao, Dai Tokairin, Brock Whiston, Roman Zhdanov and Jiang Yuyan were among the record breakers from night five as the Ukrainian 4x100 free relay closed t...

Paralympics, Day 10: Jessica Long Adds Epic 100 Fly Gold; Jiang Yuyan Captures 7th Gold China began the final day of swimming at the Paris Paralympics atop the medal table and poised to add more. With a brief interlude from Jessica Long in an epic performance, that’s how the final day at Paris La De...

Paralympics: Danielle Dorris, Liu Yu Set World Records in Final Prelims Session Canadian Danielle Dorris and China’s Liu Yu wrapped up the final preliminary session at the Paralympics with world records on Friday. Dorris clocked in at 33.51 seconds in the women’s S7 50 butterfly. That takes down the...

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, August 7. BELARUSIAN Ihar Boki (23.21) began his European Championships campaign in style with a new world record in the men’s 50m freestyle S13 on his first outing at the Pieter van den Hoogenband Swimming Stadium in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, on Thursday (7 August). Th...

Six world records fell on night two of the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships in London as Great Britain's Alice Tai was the highlight for the British fans in attendance, breaking the 100 back S8 world record on Tuesday night. Great Britain also got a gold medal from Bethany Firth in the S14 100...