Global athletes to follow at Paris Paralympics

Paris will invited astir 4,500 athletes to nan metropolis to compete successful nan first summertime Paralympics to beryllium hosted by France.

Competitors will return portion successful 22 sports crossed nan 11 days of title pinch 549 golden medals up for grabs.

The Games will characteristic nan accustomed operation of knowledgeable world stars hoping to heighten their reputations and newcomers aiming to make their mark.

BBC Sport looks astatine immoderate of nan world athletes who are aiming to radiance connected nan biggest shape erstwhile action starts connected Thursday, 29 August.

Barlaam has been a cardinal fig successful Italy's emergence arsenic a Paralympic powerhouse successful nan pool.

The 24-year-old from Milan, who was calved pinch 1 limb shorter than nan different because of a hep issue, spent clip successful Paris arsenic a kid arsenic he had a number of surgeries.

After starting swimming competitively aged 14, he made his world debut astatine nan 2017 World Championships successful Mexico and has go a starring performer successful nan S9 category.

Barlaam says he struggled astatine his first Paralympics successful Tokyo, wherever he won gold, 2 silvers and a bronze, but comes to Paris aft winning six golds successful six races astatine past year's Worlds successful Manchester and is simply a beardown favourite to adhd to his tally.

S9 400m freestyle: Thursday, 29 August; S9 50m freestyle Monday, 2 September; S9 100m backstroke: Tuesday, 3 September; S9 100m butterfly: Friday, 6 September; Mixed 4x100m freestyle 34 constituent relay: Saturday, 7 September

Dutch women person dominated wheelchair tennis for galore years and De Groot is nan latest star.

The 27-year-old is world number 1 successful some singles and doubles and won golden successful some events successful Tokyo, nan second pinch Aniek van Koot.

Born pinch her correct limb shorter than nan other, she started playing wheelchair tennis aged 7 and has dominated nan athletics since her breakthrough successful 2017.

She is nan first subordinate - wheelchair aliases non-disabled - to triumph 3 successive almanac Grand Slams and among her aggregate titles are 5 French Open singles and six doubles titles astatine Roland Garros, wherever nan Paralympic wheelchair tennis events will return place.

Earlier this year, she was named nan Laureus World Sportsperson of nan Year pinch a Disability - pursuing compatriot Esther Vergeer who won it successful 2002 and 2008.

Women's doubles final: Thursday, 5 September; Women's singles final: Friday, 6 September.

Hug's metallic helmet has seen him dubbed nan Silver Bullet but he is nary alien to golden and, arsenic 1 of nan stars of his sport, nan 38-year-old will beryllium hoping to adhd to his six Paralympic titles astatine nan Stade de France.

Hug was 2nd champion to Britain's David Weir astatine London 2012 but made his breakthrough 4 years later successful Rio.

The Swiss won his first golden successful Rio successful nan T54 800m earlier adding different successful nan marathon.

In Tokyo, he completed a cleanable expanse of wins successful nan 800m, 1500m, 5,000m and marathon earlier adding different 3 golds connected nan way successful Paris astatine past year's Worlds.

As good arsenic nan track, Hug besides stars connected nan roadworthy and has aggregate wins successful nan large metropolis marathons of London, New York, Boston, Chicago and Berlin.

T54 5,000m: Saturday, 31 August; T54 1500m: Tuesday, 3 September; T54 800m: Thursday, 5 September; T54 Marathon: Sunday, 8 September.

Masters has flooded overmuch trauma to go a prima of some summertime and wintertime Paralympics.

She was calved successful Ukraine successful 1989 pinch aggregate commencement defects, 3 years aft the Chernobyl disaster, and aft being abandoned by her commencement parents she grew up successful an orphanage where she was regularly beaten and abused.

Aged seven, she was adopted by American female Gay Masters and yet had some of her legs amputated supra nan knee and had room connected her hands.

After starting her sporting profession arsenic a rower and competing astatine London 2012, winning bronze, she switched to Para-cycling and cross-country skiing.

She won 2 golds astatine nan 2018 Winter Games successful Pyeongchang earlier securing 2 golds connected nan roadworthy successful Japan, past pursuing up pinch 3 much golds astatine nan 2022 Winters successful Beijing successful cross-country and biathlon.

Last year, she released her autobiography, The Hard Parts, wherever she told her powerful story.

H4-5 clip trial: Wednesday, 4 September; H5 roadworthy race: Thursday, 5 September

The man known arsenic nan Blade Jumper is an overwhelming favourite to triumph a 4th Paralympic agelong jump title successful Paris.

Rehm, who mislaid his correct limb beneath nan knee successful a wakeboarding mishap successful 2003 and jumps utilizing a bladed prosthesis, has been nan prima of Para-athletics since his world debut astatine nan 2011 Worlds successful New Zealand, perpetually pushing nan boundaries of his T64 event.

His existent world grounds stands astatine 8.72m - nan ninth-longest jump of each clip and his 2024 champion is 8.44m - a region which would person won Olympic metallic successful Paris and golden astatine nan erstwhile 4 Games.

However, he is incapable to compete astatine nan Olympics because it was ruled that jumping disconnected his prosthesis gives him an advantage complete non-amputees.

The Olympics' nonaccomplishment is nan Paralympics' summation and Rehm successful afloat formation is simply a show to behold.

T64 agelong jump: Wednesday, 4 September

Aged only 17, Devi will beryllium 1 of nan youngest competitors some successful archery and astatine nan Games arsenic a whole.

The Indian was calved pinch a information called phocomelia and is missing her precocious limbs.

However, she shoots arrows utilizing her feet and is nan first and only female Para-archer to compete internationally without arms.

She discovered archery 3 years agone and though coaches initially suggested that she usage a prosthesis, she gained inspiration from American Matt Stutzman, nan 2012 Paralympic metallic medallist and 2022 world champion who was besides calved without arms.

Her first awesome arena was astatine nan 2022 Asian Para Games wherever she won women's individual compound golden and mixed doubles gold. She besides took metallic successful nan women's doubles earlier claiming individual world metallic past twelvemonth and goes successful arsenic world number one.

Women's individual compound: Saturday 31 August; Mixed squad compound: Monday, 2 September

The 38-year-old from Normandy is 1 of France's main hopes for golden astatine nan Games.

Hanquinquant is nan defending Paralympic champion successful nan PTS4 class and has been nan ascendant fig successful nan section since his world debut successful June 2016. He is unbeaten since his Tokyo win.

A keen hoops subordinate and combat sports practitioner, he had a activity mishap successful 2010 and had his limb amputated beneath nan knee 3 years later.

He made his Para-sport breakthrough excessively precocious for Rio but by Tokyo he was a aggregate world champion and secured golden by almost 3 minutes from his nearest rival.

Along pinch Para-athlete Nantenin Keita, nan begetter of 2 was voted by his team-mates to transportation nan French emblem astatine nan opening ceremonial of nan Paris Games.

Men's PTS4 triathlon: Sunday, 1 September.

Stickney's first sporting dream was to aquatics astatine nan Olympics and she was classed nationally successful nan apical 20 aged 15 earlier she collapsed bones successful her near ft - which was yet amputated successful May 2018 because of symptom and complications.

That was nan commencement of her aesculapian challenges, which led to her being diagnosed pinch a uncommon vascular information which prevents capable humor proviso from reaching her limbs.

Stickney had a 2nd below-the-knee amputation successful 2019 and said past she would ne'er aquatics again, but returned to nan excavation during nan Covid pandemic and fell backmost successful emotion pinch nan sport. She went connected to triumph 2 golds successful Tokyo - her first world Para-swimming event.

Since then, nan information has progressed and she has mislaid much of her legs and it is besides affecting her full body.

In nan build-up to nan Games, Stickney, now 27, has had to walk 10 days aliases much successful infirmary successful Boston each period for curen but is fiercely wished to erstwhile again radiance connected nan large stage.

S7 400m freestyle: Monday, 2 September; S7 100m freestyle: Wednesday, 4 September