We check out a number of the main contenders for monitor and discipline gold within the French capital on the 2024 Video games
Hannah Cockroft GBR
Age: 32 • Occasions: T34 100m and 800m
The seven-time Paralympic champion might be competing at her fourth consecutive Video games, following her victories in London, Rio and Tokyo.
Ezra Frech (Getty)
Ezra Frech USA
Age: 19 • Occasions: T63 Excessive Bounce, Lengthy Bounce & 100m
The American teenager underlined his excessive leaping expertise when he shattered the boys’s T63 excessive bounce world document with a 1.95m leap on the 2023 World Championships, the place he claimed the gold medal.
Thomas Younger (Getty)
Thomas Younger GBR
Age: 24 • Occasion: T38 100m
The Briton made a exceptional entry into para-sport in 2018, securing double gold within the T38 100m and 200m on the European Championships. Only a 12 months later, he added a World Championship silver to his assortment, earlier than reaching the top of success because the Paralympic champion in Tokyo.
Fleur Jong (Getty)
Fleur Jong NED
Age: 28 • Occasions: T62
Lengthy Bounce and 100m
In 2023, she shattered the world document within the ladies’s T62 lengthy bounce whereas leaping 6.74m, whereas additionally setting a world document of 12.46 within the 100m.
Timothee Adolphe FRA
Age: 34 • Occasion: T11 100m
With the house crowd behind him, the vision-impaired Frenchman might be extra decided than ever to win his first Paralympic gold after incomes silver in Tokyo.
Aled Davies (Getty)
Aled Davies GBR
Age: 33 • Occasion: F63 Shot Put
On the subject of throwing, Aled Davies is the one to beat. His newest triumph got here on the World Championships in Kobe, the place he claimed his tenth gold medal with a throw of 15.60m.
Catherine Debrunner (LM Occasions)
Catherine Debrunner SWI
Age: 29 • Occasions: 100m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 5000m and the marathon
With 5 World Championships gold medals to her identify, the Swiss athlete might be wanting to dominate on the monitor and retain her 400m T53 title.
Zac Shaw, Jonnie Peacock, Sophie Hahn and Sammi Kinghorn (Getty)
Sophie Hahn GBR
Age: 27 • Occasion: T38 100m
After equalling her personal world document within the heats in Tokyo, Hahn went on to say gold for Nice Britain in 2021. She could have her 12.38 world document in her sights in Paris, having run 12.55 on the London Diamond League in July.
Sumit Antil IND
Age: 26 • Occasion: F64 Javelin
As India sends its largest-ever contingent to the Paralympics, all eyes are on Sumit Antil, a real icon in Indian para sports activities. Antil is the reigning Paralympic and world champion within the males’s javelin F64 class, constantly proving himself on the worldwide stage.
Ambra Sabatini (Getty)
Ambra Sabatini ITA
Age: 22 • Occasion: T63 100m
Ambra Sabatini blasted her method into the historical past books in 2023 as the primary lady with an above-the-knee amputation to run the 100m in beneath 14 seconds.
» That is an edited model of a function which is obtainable within the newest challenge of AW journal. To purchase a replica click on right here
The submit 10 to observe on the Paris Paralympics appeared first on AW.