Tatyana McFadden celebrates victory at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.Athletics events have been a part of the Paralympic program since the first Paralympic Games in Rome, Italy, in 1960 and is the biggest sport within the Paralympic Movement in terms o...
Alexa Halko preps for the start of a race at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.U.S. Paralympics has developed U.S. athlete ranking lists based on validated performances. These ranking lists reflect marks accomplished at any track and field competition. Som...
At this year’s Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta, one of the pre-race favorites in the wheelchair division, Daniel Romanchuk, was trailing after the first of six miles.He was in fifth or sixth place, and some of the broadcasters were confused why one of t...
Only .06 meters separated three Team USA athletes in the men’s long jump T64 standings at the World Para Athletics Championships in July.The leader of those three U.S. jumpers, silver medalist Derek Loccident, hadn’t even been long jumping a year prior...
In Erik Hightower’s final meet as a competitive wheelchair racer last year, he set a personal-best of 49.37 seconds in the 400-meter in Chula Vista, California.“It was a cool way to go out,” he said. “I ended on a good note.”The 37-year-old officially ...
Every other week we scour the web for the latest going on in the world of U.S. Para track and field. Here’s what you missed!One Year OutThe Paralympic Games Paris 2024 are now less than a year away, as Monday, Aug. 28 marked the official one year out d...
The USOPC announces the 2024 U.S. Paralympic Team Trials for Para swimming and Para track and field
Two years ago, at his third Paralympic Games, Jarryd Wallace finally broke through to claim his first medal on that grand stage.His third-place finish in the men’s 200-meter T44 prompted Wallace to fall to his knees in excitement.At last month’s 2023 W...
When Noelle Malkamaki broke the world record in the women’s shot put F46 for the first time, she didn’t even realize it.It was earlier this summer, while competing at the U.S. Paralympics Track & Field National Championships in Chula Vista, California....
Brian Siemann has been one of the elite wheelchair racers in the T53 classification for more than a decade.He has competed in multiple events — mainly the 100-, 400- and 800-meter, but also the 1,500, 5,000 and marathon — at various Paralympic Games an...
