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...
USA Track & Field has developed a U.S. athlete ranking list for 2025 based on performances submitted to USATF. The below ranking list reflects marks accomplished at any track and field competition in 2025 and ranks them based on the National A Standard...
INDIANAPOLIS – After three action-packed days of competition at the USATF Para National Championships in Eugene, Ore., USA Track & Field today announced the 40 athletes that will represent the United States at the 2025 Para Athletics World Champion...
EUGENE – The first-ever combined USATF Outdoor and Para National Championships came to a close Saturday in dramatic fashion courtesy of a women’s long jump world record from Annie Carey (Boise, Idaho). The 2024 Paralympian broke her own T44 world recor...
EUGENE – In one of the closest results across two days of competition at the 2025 USATF Para National Championships, 17-year-old newcomer Violet Hall (Bloomington, Indiana) stunned a field of Paralympic mainstays to win the women’s 200-meter T44/46/64 ...
EUGENE – Veteran athletes led the way on the opening day of the 2025 USATF Para National Championships as multiple Paralympic champions captured national titles in a historic kickoff to the first-ever combined USATF Outdoor and Para National Championsh...
You never know when a person or event enters your world that might change your life.For Sam Winter, that moment happened in 2018. That was when Winter, who had been a sled hockey player, first heard about adaptive track and field. A coach drove two hou...
Joel Gomez’s accolades as a Para distance runner are significant, but they’re just part of his world-class balancing act.The 21-year-old Gomez, who is legally blind, finished seventh in the men’s 1,500-meter T13 for Team USA at the Paralympic Games Par...
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA – USA Track & Field today announced the 2025 USATF Para National Championships, which will take place at the renowned Hayward Field at the University of Oregon from July 31-August 2, 2025. The event will be the first time in U...
INDIANAPOLIS – Following an unprecedented 2024 season that saw both a Paralympic Games and a world championships contested, USA Track & Field today announced the 62 athletes and two guides named to its 2025 Tier athlete program. The roster is compo...
