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The 2013
IPC Athletics World Championships The World Para Athletics Championships, known as the IPC Athletics World Championships prior to 2017, are a biennial Paralympic athletics event organized by World Para Athletics, a subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). It ...
was the biggest track and field competition for athletes with a disability since the 2012 Summer Paralympics. It was held in
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,
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, and lasted from 20 to 28 July. Around 1,100 athletes competed, from 94 different countries. The event was held in the Stade du Rhône located at the
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in
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, in
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.


Venue

The Championship was staged at the Stade du Rhône in the
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. The stadium, previously known as the Stade Parilly, was refurbished in 2012 and officially reopened and renamed on 3 September 2012.


Format

The 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships was an invitational tournament taking in track and field events. No combined sports were included in the 2013 Championships, with the pentathlon dropped. A total of 1,300 places were made available to all IPC affiliated countries, with 94 countries accepting the invitation and 1,073 athletes reaching the sporting criteria requested. Of the 1,300 available places, 900 were made available for male athletes and 400 for female athlete. No country could send more than 55 male athletes and 25 female athletes, and only three athletes per event, apart from the marathons where six were allowed, or multi-classification events (such as F54/55/56 javelin) where five athletes could be entered. All events, apart from the marathons, took place within the Stade du Rhône. Not all events were open to all classifications, with several throwing and jumping events being contested between classifications, which were then decided on a points system. The men's 100m relay was the only event to use mixed classifications as a team, with each leg of the relay contested by a different classification athlete. There were no women's relay events. In total there were 207 events held over 17 disciplines. Athletes finishing in first place are awarded the gold medal, second place the silver medal and third place the bronze. If only three competitors are available to challenge for an event then no bronze medal is awarded.


Coverage

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provided live video coverage on its website, as well as live coverage, videos of events and interviews on its ParalympicSportTV channel on
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. In the host country, France, the television channel
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broadcast two hours daily in the evening. This followed criticism that French television had given insufficient coverage to the 2012 Summer Paralympics. In the United Kingdom,
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's sister channel
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aired over five hours of live coverage daily throughout the Championship. This continued Channel 4's commitment to broadcasting disability sport until at least 2016.


Events


Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony was held at Stade du Rhone on Friday 19 July. The spectators were entertained by a celebration of Lyon's cultural heritage with an historic re-enactment, followed by a parade of athletes representing the 90 participating nations filed into the stadium. Speeches were made by
Gérard Masson Gérard Masson (born 12 August, 1936, in Paris) is a French composer. Biography Gérard Masson grew up listening to jazz, played jazz trumpet, and began studying the piano in 1945, but had no formal training in composition until, after militar ...
, President of the Organisation Committee and Sir
Philip Craven Sir Philip Lee Craven (born 4 July 1950) is an English sports administrator, former Paralympic wheelchair basketball player, swimmer and track and field athlete. Between 2001 and 2017 he was the second president of the International Paralymp ...
, IPC President. Before the host nation national anthem played, master corporal Thomas Brun, a wounded veteran of the Afghanistan war, passed on the Tricolour to French athletes of the 2014 Winter Paralympics.


Classification

To ensure competition is as fair and balanced as possible, athletes are classified dependent on how their disability impacts on their chosen event/s. Thus athletes may compete in an event against competitors with a different disability to themselves. Where there are more than one classification in one event, (for example discus throw F54/55/56), a points system is used to determine the winner. *F = field athletes *T = track athletes *11-13 – visually impaired, 11 and 12 compete with a
sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment. Sports Paralympic Games At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment. Rules are according to the Internationa ...
*20 – intellectual disability *31-38 –
cerebral palsy Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of movement disorders that appear in early childhood. Signs and symptoms vary among people and over time, but include poor coordination, stiff muscles, weak muscles, and tremors. There may be problems with sensa ...
or other conditions that affect muscle co-ordination and control. Athletes in class 31-34 compete in a seated position; athletes in class 35-38 compete standing. *41-46 –
amputation Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma, medical illness, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on indi ...
, ''
les autres Les Autres sport classification is system used in disability sport for people with locomotor disabilities not included in other classification systems for people with physical disabilities. The purpose of this system is to facilitate fair competiti ...
'' *51-58 – wheelchair athletes


Schedule


Results

Full results


Medal table

The medal table at the end of Day 9 (28 July).


Multiple medallists

161 competitors won multiple medals at the 2013 Championships. The following six athletes won four gold medals or more.


Highlights


Day 1 (20 July)

After failing to show up at the final of the T11 5,000m at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Brazil's
Odair Santos Odair Santos (born 17 May 1981) is a visually impaired Paralympian Track and field, athlete from Brazil competing mainly in T11 (classification), T11 classification middle and long-distance events. A veteran of four Paralympics, Santos has won ni ...
took the world title, beating fellow South American and Paralympic champion Cristian Valenzuela by over 11 seconds. In the T12 class of the 5,000m, Morocco's El Amin Chentouf set a competition record of 14:32.27. The Ukraine team started the games strongly with three gold medals, Andrii Holivets in the F12 shot put,
Andriy Onufriyenko Andriy Onufriyenko ( uk, Андрій Онуфрієнко) (born 7 January 1983) is an athlete and Paralympian from Ukraine competing mainly in category T38 sprint events. He competed in the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Au ...
in the T37/38 long jump and
Roman Pavlyk Roman Pavlyk ( uk, Роман Павлик; born 1 December 1983) is a Paralympic athlete from Ukraine. He has cerebral palsy and competes in T36 sprint and F36 long jump events. He competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. T ...
who broke the T36 long jump world record with a distance of 5.44m. Maciej Lepiato won the first gold of the Championships for Poland when he broke his own world record in the T44 high jump with a height of 2.13m. Other world records fell in the throwing events when Mohsen Kaedi (Iran) took the F34/35 Javelin while Aled Davies (Great Britain) won the F42 shot put.
Marcel Hug Marcel Eric Hug (born 16 January 1986) is a Paralympian athlete from Switzerland competing in category T54 wheelchair racing events. Hug, nicknamed 'The Silver Bullet', has competed in four Summer Paralympic Games for Switzerland, winning two ...
of Switzerland started a strong personal Championship with his first medal of the tournament, the 10,000m gold in the T54 classification, his third consecutive World medal at this distance. Although the team failed to take a gold medal on day one, the USA showed strength in the qualifiers with Tatyana McFadden winning both her T54 heats, setting a personal best in the 200m and a championship record in 5000m. Fellow countryman Jarryd Wallace set a world record of 22.32 in the T44 200m sprint qualifier. Liu Fuliang of China, who took gold in the T46 triple jump and silver in the T42-46 4 × 100 m relay in the London Paralympics, showed his versatility by winning the T46 long jump. Another Paralympic winner to take gold in Lyon was Britain's
Hannah Cockroft Hannah Lucy Cockroft (born 30 July 1992) is a British wheelchair racer specialising in sprint distances in the T34 classification. She holds the world records for the 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres, 800 metres ...
who won the T34 200m sprint.


Day 2 (21 July)

On day two the USA converted their strong qualifying results into medals, taking five golds. Two from Tatyana McFadden, in the T54 200m and 5000m,
Jeremy Campbell Jeremy Campbell (born August 19, 1987) is an American Paralympic athlete competing mainly in T44 (classification), F44 events. Career He competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China, China. There he won a gold ...
in the F44 discus, Raymond Martin with a Championship record in the T52 800m and Jarryd Wallace who beat his world record, set the day before, by running 22.08 in the T44 200m. Luis Felipe Gutiérrez won the first gold of the Championship for Cuba taking the T13 long jump, while his compatriot Leonardo Diaz doubled their tally with a world record in F54/55/56 discus throw. Japan's
Atsushi Yamamoto is a leg amputee athlete from Japan competing mainly in category T42 sprint and long jump events. He won silver medals in the long jump at the 2008 and 2016 Paralympics. Yamamoto also competed in snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Paralympics ...
gave his country their first top podium finish, in the T42 long jump. The Ukraine continued their first day success by collecting three more golds, including two wins in the throwing disciplines,
Mykola Zhabnyak Mykola Zhabnyak (30 September 1979) is a Paralympian athlete from Ukraine competing mainly in category F37/38 throwing events. Career Mykola competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), Chinese postal romaniz ...
in the F37/38 discus and
Mariia Pomazan Mariia Pomazan (Ukrainian: Марія Олександрівна Помазан; born 15 October 1988) is a Ukrainian Paralympic athlete. She competes in throwing events in the F35 classification for athletes with cerebral palsy. , she holds W ...
in the F35/36, who set a new World record with a distance of 12.35m. The Ukraine's trio of gold medals was completed by
Oxana Boturchuk Oksana Boturchuk ( uk, Оксана Ботурчук) (born 12 September 1984) is a Paralympic athlete from Ukraine competing mainly in category T12 sprint events. She competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. There she won ...
in the T12 200m sprint. Poland saw double success, with golds from Bartosz Tyszkowski in the F41 shot put and Mateusz Michalski on the track, where he set a Championship record in the T12 200ms. World records were set in the F51/52/53 women's discus throw, set by Britain's Josie Pearson, and in the T37 800m race
Michael McKillop Michael Gerard McKillop (born 27 January 1990 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland) is an Irish middle distance runner. He competes in the T37 disability sport classification, as he has a mild form of cerebral palsy. He won the 800m title at th ...
of the Republic of Ireland who added the world title to his Paralympic gold. Ireland added to this success when
Jason Smyth Jason Smyth (born 4 July 1987) is a Northern Irish sprint runner. He competes in the T13 disability sport classification as he is legally blind, with his central vision being affected by Stargardt's disease; he also competes in elite non-Pa ...
equaled his own world record in the T13 200m final. World records also fell in the qualifying rounds, with the host nation's own Mandy Francois-Elie recording a time of 28.35s in the T37 200m semi-final. Tunisia's Walid Ktila qualified for the final of the T34 200m with a record time of 27.61s. One of the most significant wins of the day came late in the schedule when Brazil's parasport poster-boy
Alan Oliveira Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira (born August 21, 1992) is a Paralympian athlete from Brazil competing mainly in category T44 sprint events. Oliveira is a double-below-the-knee amputee, classifying him in the Paralympic T43 class; athletes in this ...
secured the T43 200m title by running a world record time of 20.66s.


Day 3 (22 July)

Host nation France secured their first gold medal of the Championships when Mandy Francois-Elie won the T37 200m final. Further success from Russia pushes the country into second place on the medal table, with gold medals for five athletes. Of the five gold medal winning athletes, four broke the world record in their discipline: Andrey Vdovin, (100m T37),
Evgenii Shvetcov Evgeny Shvetsov (''born 28 February 1988'') is a Paralympian track and field athlete from Russia competing mainly in category T36 sprint and middle-distance events. A triple gold medal winner at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Shvetcov set three ...
(100m T36), Maria Bogacheva (shot put F54) and
Egor Sharov Egor Sharov (born 16 December 1988) is a Paralympian athlete from Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with ...
(800m T12). Their fifth winning athlete was
Alexey Ashapatov Alexey Vitalyevich Ashapatov (russian: Алексей Витальевич Ашапатов; born 30 October 1973) is a Russian para-athletics, para-athlete competing mainly in category F57-58 throwing events. He competed in the 2008 Summer Pa ...
who set a Championship record of 58.39m in the F57/58 discus. Germany also saw one of its athletes break a world record as
Sebastian Dietz Sebastian Ernst Klaus Dietz (born 25 February 1985) is a German track and field athlete who competes in disability athletics in the F36 category. Dietz specializes in both the discus and shot put, winning a gold medal in the former at the 201 ...
took the F35/36 in the men's discus. Algeria continued to build on the achievements set by
Samir Nouioua Samir Nouioua (born 10 July 1985) is a Paralympian athlete from Algeria competing mainly in category T46 middle distance events. He competed in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. There he won a gold medal in the men's 1500 metres ...
on the first day, with two gold medals in the men's events, Abdellatif Baka in the T13 800m and a world record for Mohamed Berrahal in the F51/52/53 discus. In the two long jump finals of the day
Karolina Kucharczyk Karolina Kucharczyk (born 24 April 1991 in Rawicz) is a Polish Paralympic athlete who began in her sport at age twelve. She won a gold medal for Poland at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the Long Jump class F20. She broke her own record in doin ...
of Poland recorded a World record of 6.09m in the T20 while Martina Caironi of Italy took the title in the women's T42. Italy added a third gold on day 3 when
Oxana Corso Oxana Corso (born 9 July 1995 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian-born Italian Paralympic athletics, Paralympic athlete. , she holds the Women's 400 metres world records for the T35 (classification), T35 cerebral palsy classification. She won a si ...
won the 100m T35 with a world record time.
Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli Muhammad Ziyad bin Zolkefli (born 15 March 1990) is a Paralympic athlete from Malaysia who competes in T20 classification shot put events. He is the current world record holder in his event. Zolkefli represented Malaysia at the 2012 Summer Pa ...
gave Malaysia their first medal of the competition with a gold in the F20 shot put. Finland also added to their tally with a gold in the T51 100m sprint from
Toni Piispanen Toni Piispanen (born 24 July 1976) is a Finnish Paralympic athlete. Career He started as an able-bodied karate competitor and became disabled due to an accident that injured his spinal cord at a karate show in 1993. This accident occurred in La ...
and a silver from Henry Manni in the T34 200m, high returns from a small but competitive team.
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host nation Brazil continued to impress with two more track golds, one from Verônica Hipólito in a hotly contested T38 200m final, and the second by
Yohansson Nascimento Yohansson Nascimento (born 25 September 1987) is an athlete and Paralympian from Brazil competing mainly in T45/46 sprint events. He was born without both his hands, and is classified T46. He started athletics in 2005. Personal history Nascieme ...
in the T46 200m. The previous Paralympic host's Great Britain also kept up their challenge for the top of the medal table with Hannah Cockroft taking her second gold with victory in the T34 100m, Hollie Arnold winning the F46 javelin and Paul Blake achieving gold success in the T36 800m final. In the T44 100m qualifiers, world record holder
Jonnie Peacock Jonathan Peacock MBE (born 28 May 1993) is an English sprint runner... An amputee, Peacock won gold at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and 2016 Summer Paralympics, representing Great Britain in the T44 men's 100 metres event. He won a Bronze m ...
of Britain qualified for the finals with a season's best only to see American rival Richard Browne beat his world record by 0.02 seconds to set up an exciting day 4 showdown.


Day 4 (23 July)

In the shot put,
Aigars Apinis Aigars Apinis (born 9 June 1973, in Aizkraukle) is a Latvian athlete. He participates in F52 class which means he has limited finger movement and no trunk or leg function. He started to practice in 1998, but already at the 2000 Summer Paraly ...
of Latvia equaled the world record in the F43/43 classification, while Nikita Prokhorov took a centimeter off his own world record in the F46 class. Germany had further success in the throwing events with gold for
Marianne Buggenhagen Marianne Buggenhagen (born 26 May 1953 in Ueckermünde, East Germany) is a Paralympian Track and field, athlete from Germany competing mainly in throwing events. Career history She first competed in the 1992 Summer Para ...
in the F54/55/56 discus and
Birgit Kober Birgit Kober (born 10 July 1971) is a German Paralympic athlete. She initially competed in F34 seated throwing events, and from 2011-2013 she became the reigning champion at European, World and Paralympic level in both shot put and javelin in he ...
in the F33/34 javelin. Other notable wins went to Aled Davies (Britain) in the F42 discus, Anibal Bello who won Venezuela's first gold of the Championship in the F11 javelin and Estela Salas in the F52/53 javelin, a second win for Mexico. In the jumping events, Iris Pruysen of the Netherlands won the T44 long jump, her country's first in Lyon, Nikol Rodomakina (Russia) recorded a personal best to win the T46 long jump and another gold went to the Ukraine as Dmytro Prudinkov took the T20 long jump title. On the track, Russia took the first team event when they won the Men's 4 × 100 m Relay in the T11-13 class, pushing the USA and France into second and third place. The USA were not without success on day four, with Tatyana McFadden securing her third out of a possible six gold medals with a world record time of 1.44:44 in T54 800m final. This was followed by a win by Raymond Martin in the T52 100m sprint. The highly anticipated contest between Peacock and Browne in the T44 final went to Peacock who took the gold with just 0.02seconds between the rivals. The contest was not so close between Oliveira and his American rival Blake Leeper, with the Brazilian winning his second gold of the Championship in style in the T43 100m. There were more gold medals for Brazil on the track, for
Odair Santos Odair Santos (born 17 May 1981) is a visually impaired Paralympian Track and field, athlete from Brazil competing mainly in T11 (classification), T11 classification middle and long-distance events. A veteran of four Paralympics, Santos has won ni ...
in the T11 800m and
Terezinha Guilhermina Terezinha Guilhermina (born 3 October 1978) is a Paralympic athlete from Brazil competing mainly in category T11 sprint events, T11 being the category for totally blind athletes. She has congenital retinitis pigmentosa, as do five of her twelve ...
in the T11 100m. Other wins went to Min Jae Jeon of South Korea in the T36 200m and China's Zhou Hongzhuan added to her Beijing and London success with the T53 800m title.


Day 5 (24 July)

Russia continued their steady accumulation of podium wins with success on the track.
Evgenii Shvetcov Evgeny Shvetsov (''born 28 February 1988'') is a Paralympian track and field athlete from Russia competing mainly in category T36 sprint and middle-distance events. A triple gold medal winner at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Shvetcov set three ...
won the T36 200m and Andrey Vdovin broke the world record in the T37 200m. Not to be outdone, teammate Atrem Arefyev also broke a world record, in the 1500m in the T36 classification. Other track success was claimed by Australia's
Evan O'Hanlon Evan George O'Hanlon, (born 4 May 1988) is an Australian Paralympic athlete, who competes mainly in category T38 sprint events. He has won five gold medals at two Paralympic Games – 2008 Beijing and 2012 London. He also represented Austral ...
, whose gold in the T38 200m sprint was his second of the competition. O'Hanlon's two wins, Australia's only top podium success of the Championships so far, hide a team heavy in medal success but unable to convert silver and bronze to gold. France broke into the top twenty of the medal table with three podium finishes, two of them gold. Mandy Francois-Elie who secured her second win of the Championship with the T37 100m title was joined by Tony Falelavaki who threw 54.39m in the F44 Javelin. Other multiple medal winners included
Marcel Hug Marcel Eric Hug (born 16 January 1986) is a Paralympian athlete from Switzerland competing in category T54 wheelchair racing events. Hug, nicknamed 'The Silver Bullet', has competed in four Summer Paralympic Games for Switzerland, winning two ...
(Switzerland), whose domination of the T54 distance racing continued as he added the 5000m title to his 400 and 10,000m golds. Ireland's
Michael McKillop Michael Gerard McKillop (born 27 January 1990 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland) is an Irish middle distance runner. He competes in the T37 disability sport classification, as he has a mild form of cerebral palsy. He won the 800m title at th ...
collected his second gold by setting a championship record in the T38 1500m, while Walid Ktila of Tunisia won the T34 100m, the second of a possible four medals in his sights. Another athlete aiming at four medals was T53 wheelchair racer
Brent Lakatos Brent Lakatos (born 1 June 1980) is a Canadian wheelchair racer in the T53 classification. Lakatos has represented Canada at three Summer Paralympics, and at the 2012 Games he won three silver medals in the sprint and mid-distance events. In 20 ...
of Canada, who, with a silver already in the 800m and a gold in the 400m, took the 200m title with a championship record time. World records continued to be broken, with
Markus Rehm Markus Rehm (born 22 August 1988) is a German Paralympic athlete. He began in sports at age 20 and became a long jump F44 world champion in 2011. His club is TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen and he is a medical specialist. Rehm is nicknamed "The Blade Ju ...
of Germany setting a distance of 7.95m in the T44 men's long jump. In the T38 100m, 16-year-old British sprinter Sophie Hahn gained revenge over her rival Verônica Hipólito, who had beaten her in the 200m, by posting a record time of 13.10s. Two world records were also set in the women's throwing events, in the club throw Maroua Ibrahmi recorded a distance of 24.15 on her way to a points victory, while Assunta Legnente out threw her nearest rival by a massive five metres to win the T11 shot put for Italy.


Day 6 (25 July)

Day 6 started with
Michelle Stilwell Michelle Stilwell (''nee'' Bauknecht; born July 4, 1974) is a Canadian wheelchair racer and politician. She is the only female Paralympic athlete to win gold medals in two separate summer sport events. Stilwell was elected to the Legislative A ...
of Canada collecting her country's third gold of the games with a world record time of 2:14.79 in the T52 800 metres. Iran brought their medal tally up to six when
Peyman Nasiri Bazanjani Peyman Nasiri Bazanjani (born 10 June 1980) is a Paralympic athlete from Iran who competes in T20 classification middle-distance running events. Nasiri Bazanjani represented Iran at the 2012 Summer Paralympics The 2012 Summer Paralympics ...
won his country's first track medal of the championships with victory in the T20 1500 m race. Algeria collected two gold medals on the track, both at 1500 m distance,
Samir Nouioua Samir Nouioua (born 10 July 1985) is a Paralympian athlete from Algeria competing mainly in category T46 middle distance events. He competed in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. There he won a gold medal in the men's 1500 metres ...
in the T46 classification and Abdellatif Baka in the T13. These wins gave Nouioua and Baka their second gold medals of the competition. This was bettered by
Odair Santos Odair Santos (born 17 May 1981) is a visually impaired Paralympian Track and field, athlete from Brazil competing mainly in T11 (classification), T11 classification middle and long-distance events. A veteran of four Paralympics, Santos has won ni ...
who won his third gold of the games when he secured the T12 1500 m, though the Brazilian could not compete with Tatyana McFadden who successfully claimed her fourth and fifth golds of the games when she won the T54 100 m and 1500 m. In the T54 1500m race, despite the distance of the race, Japan's
Wakako Tsuchida (born 15 October 1974) is an athlete from Tokyo, Japan, who is an accomplished women's wheelchair marathoner, ice sledge racer and triathlete. She was the first professional wheelchair athlete from Japan and the first Japanese athlete to win g ...
and Switzerland's Edith Wolf crossed the finish line in a rare dead-heat and were both awarded the silver medal. Other multiple gold medal winners on the track included a third for Tunisia's Walid Ktila (T34 800 m), a second for China's
Huang Lisha Huang Lisha (; born September 10, 1988) is a Paralympian athlete from China competing mainly in category T53 wheelchair sprint events. She competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. There she won a gold medal in the women's 100 ...
(T53 100 m) and a second for Ireland's
Jason Smyth Jason Smyth (born 4 July 1987) is a Northern Irish sprint runner. He competes in the T13 disability sport classification as he is legally blind, with his central vision being affected by Stargardt's disease; he also competes in elite non-Pa ...
(T13 100 m). In the throwing events, four new world records were set.
Hania Aidi Hania Aidi ( ar, هنية العايدي; born 10 December 1977) is a Paralympian Track and field, athlete from Tunisia competing mainly in F54 (classification), category F54 javelin throw events. Aidi has competed at four consecutive Summer Para ...
of Tunisia recorded a distance of 18.32 m in the F54/55/56 javelin.
Lahouari Bahlaz Lahouari Bahlaz (born 12 March 1979) is an Algerian track and field athlete who competes in disability athletics in the T32 (classification), F32 category. Bahlaz specializes in both the discus throw, discus and club throw, winning two bronze med ...
of Algeria secured gold with a record in the men's F31/32/51 club throw, while Ukrainian
Mariia Pomazan Mariia Pomazan (Ukrainian: Марія Олександрівна Помазан; born 15 October 1988) is a Ukrainian Paralympic athlete. She competes in throwing events in the F35 classification for athletes with cerebral palsy. , she holds W ...
threw 31.42 m in the F35/36 discus throw. Fifteen-year-old British athlete Scott Jones beat his closest rival by 59 cm in the F34 shot put to set the last world record of the day. Both jumping events held on day six were in the women's long jump. Isle Hayes from South Africa set a championship record of 5.76 m to win the T13. Another championship record fell in the T12 classification of the long jump when Oksana Zubkovska of the Ukraine recorded a distance of 6.51 m.


Day 7 (26 June)

Two world records were broken and one equaled on day 7, two in throwing events and one on the track.
Vladimir Sviridov Vladimir Sergeyevich Sviridov (russian: Владимир Сергеевич Свиридов; born 10 May 1990) is a Russian para-athlete competing mainly in category F36 long jump and shot put. In 2013 he took the gold in the shot put at the I ...
of Russia equaled the world record in the F36 shot put in his very first throw with a distance of 14.70m. Fellow Russian
Chermen Kobesov Chermen Kobesov (born 4 January 1996) is a Russian para-athlete in the T37 classification. He represented Russian Paralympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Paralympics Kobesov represented Russian Paralympic Committee athlet ...
added a gold medal to his silver from the long jump with a world record in the T37 400m. The final record of the day was achieved in the F53/53 javelin where
Alphanso Cunningham Alphanso Cunningham (born 29 August 1980) is a Paralympian athlete from Jamaica competing mainly in category F53 throwing events. Career history Cunningham competed in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in the javelin and won gold in the F53 discus th ...
gave Jamaica their first gold of the Championships. Jamaica were one of five countries to collect their first gold medal of the games on Day 7. Syria won a gold in the F56/57 shot put, awarded to Mohamed Mohamed, the sole representative of his country. Ihar Fartunau of Belarus reached a height of 1.93 to win the T13 high jump, while
Chiang Chih-Chung Chiang Chih-chung () is a Taiwanese javelin thrower. He is Chinese Taipei's most successful representative at the Paralympic Games, having won two gold medals, in 2000 and 2004. He competes in the F13 category for athletes with visual ...
of Chinese Taipei threw 59.29m in the F12/13 javelin. The fifth country to gain their first gold in Lyon was Austria, won in the T46 400m by
Gunther Matzinger Gundaharius or Gundahar (died 437), better known by his legendary names Gunther ( gmh, Gunther) or Gunnar ( non, Gunnarr), was a historical king of Burgundy in the early 5th century. Gundahar is attested as ruling his people shortly after they ...
.
Marcel Hug Marcel Eric Hug (born 16 January 1986) is a Paralympian athlete from Switzerland competing in category T54 wheelchair racing events. Hug, nicknamed 'The Silver Bullet', has competed in four Summer Paralympic Games for Switzerland, winning two ...
continued to stamp his mark on the competition with his third gold of the Championships, winning the T54 1,500m.
Birgit Kober Birgit Kober (born 10 July 1971) is a German Paralympic athlete. She initially competed in F34 seated throwing events, and from 2011-2013 she became the reigning champion at European, World and Paralympic level in both shot put and javelin in he ...
of Germany became a double gold medal winner adding the F32/33/34 shot put to her javelin title won three days earlier. Xia Dong of China put behind the disappointment of failing to clinch the gold in the F37/38 discus by setting a Championship record in the F37 shot put. While Australia began to hit the top spot with gold winning achievements for
Evan O'Hanlon Evan George O'Hanlon, (born 4 May 1988) is an Australian Paralympic athlete, who competes mainly in category T38 sprint events. He has won five gold medals at two Paralympic Games – 2008 Beijing and 2012 London. He also represented Austral ...
(T38 400m), and after an appeal by the Australian team
Scott Reardon Scott Peter Reardon, (born 15 May 1990) is an Australian Paralympic leg amputee sprinter and water skier. He won water skiing world championships in 2007 and 2009. He represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in athletics, winning ...
shared the T42 100m title with German rival
Heinrich Popow Heinrich Popow (born 14 July 1983) is a German sprinter. At the Paralympics 2012 in London he won Gold in 100 metres sprint. During his career he has been the World and European Champion in 100 metres sprint and World Champion in the long jum ...
. Initially Popow had been declared the winner by a few thousandths of a second, but later the two men shared the podium together after one of the most contested races of the games.


Day 8 (27 June)

American wheelchair racer Tatyana McFadden sealed her position as the most successful athlete of the Championships when she won her sixth gold medal by taking the 400m T54. The United States also celebrated a fifth gold medal from Raymond Martin who like McFadden also won every event he entered, finishing with the T52 400m. Other gold medals for the United States came from Elexis Gillette in the T11 long jump,
Cassie Mitchell Cassie Mitchell (born June 8, 1981) is an American engineer and Paralympic cyclist and track and field athlete. Early life Mitchell was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and graduated from high school in Warner in 1999 as valedictorian of her class ...
, who added the F53/53 shot put to her silver and two bronzes won on the track, and a team medal in the men's 4 x 100 metres relay T42-46 setting a new world record. The other relay finals were won by Canada in the men's 4 x 400 metres T53/54 and Russia in the men's 4 x 100 metres T35-38. As well as the relay, Russia finished the Championship with more gold medal success. Nikita Prokhorov won the F46 discus and Evgeniya Trushnikova won the T37 400m, both setting tournament records. Russia finished Day 8 with golds for
Egor Sharov Egor Sharov (born 16 December 1988) is a Paralympian athlete from Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with ...
in the T12 400m, Elena Pautova in the T12 1,500m and two new world records for Marta Prokofyeva in the F12 shot put and Dmitrii Safronov in the T35 200m. Two further world records were broken on the penultimate day, both by Algerian athletes. Nassima Saifi threw a distance of 42.05m in the F57/58 women's discus while her countryman
Lahouari Bahlaz Lahouari Bahlaz (born 12 March 1979) is an Algerian track and field athlete who competes in disability athletics in the T32 (classification), F32 category. Bahlaz specializes in both the discus throw, discus and club throw, winning two bronze med ...
, also a discus thrower, recorded 22.75 in the joint F32/33/34 event. Azerbaijan secured their first gold medal of the Championships when Vladimir Zayets won the T12 triple jump, a feat equaled by Namibia who took their sixth medal of the games with a top podium finish for Nambala Johannes in the T13 400m. Walid Ktila struck again for a fourth gold medal, this time in the T34 400m, while there were second gold medals for China's Zhou Hongzhuan (T53 400m), the Netherlands
Marlou van Rhijn Marlou van Rhijn (; born 22 October 1991) is a retired professional Dutch former professional sprint runner. Van Rhijn, who was born without lower legs, is the world record holder for T43 in the 100 and 200 metres events and ran with the aid ...
(T44 200m) and Italian duo Martina Caironi (T42 100m) and
Oxana Corso Oxana Corso (born 9 July 1995 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian-born Italian Paralympic athletics, Paralympic athlete. , she holds the Women's 400 metres world records for the T35 (classification), T35 cerebral palsy classification. She won a si ...
(T35 200m). The final track medal of the day went to
Michelle Stilwell Michelle Stilwell (''nee'' Bauknecht; born July 4, 1974) is a Canadian wheelchair racer and politician. She is the only female Paralympic athlete to win gold medals in two separate summer sport events. Stilwell was elected to the Legislative A ...
of Canada who added the T52 200m event to her 100m and 800m titles.


Day 9 (28 July)

The final day of the Championships took in five events all in the marathon. There was only one women's race, the T54 classification, with ten competitors from six different nations. The three medal winners all crossed the finish line within a second of each other, with eventual winner Switzerland's
Manuela Schär Manuela Schär (born 5 December 1984) is a Paralympian athlete from Switzerland competing mainly in category T54 sprint events. She has used a wheelchair since the age of 8, when a playground accident paralysed her from the waist down. Ca ...
recording a final time of 1:49.45. Switzerland made it a double in the T54 marathon when
Marcel Hug Marcel Eric Hug (born 16 January 1986) is a Paralympian athlete from Switzerland competing in category T54 wheelchair racing events. Hug, nicknamed 'The Silver Bullet', has competed in four Summer Paralympic Games for Switzerland, winning two ...
dominated the men's race to win by over three minutes to collect his fifth gold medal of the games. Chile gained its first gold medal of the Championship when Cristian Valenzuela won the T11 marathon. With two silver medals already to his name; in the 1,500 and 5,000m, Valenzuela made Chile the most successful nation in proportion to the size of their team, being his country's only competitor. The T46 marathon was a limited field with only four challengers for the title. Italy's Alessandro Di Lello took gold, beating his nearest rival by almost 15 minutes. The T12 marathon saw Paralympic champion El Amin Chentouf of Morocco finishing close to the Championship record to cement his dominance in his classification.


Participating nations

Below is the list of countries who agreed to participate in the Championships and the requested number of athlete places for each.The PDF displays a total of 94 countries, but was published on 19 July 2013 and may not reflect the exact participants or the exact countries that may have arrived for the Championships. * (25) * ( 4) * (13) * (36) * ( 5) * ( 9) * ( 4) * ( 3) * ( 8) * ( 2) * ( 1) * ( 2) * (35) * ( 1) * ( 9) * ( 1) * (32) * ( 2) * ( 1) * ( 1) * (22) * ( 4) * (18) * (14) * ( 6) * (15) * ( 5) * ( 1) * ( 12) * ( 1) * (10) * (33) * ( 1) * (26) * (46) * (19) * ( 1) * ( 4) * ( 3) * (10) * (11) * ( 7) * ( 8) * ( 1) * (12) * ( 5) * (34) * ( 2) * ( 8) * ( 5) * ( 8) * ( 7) * ( 5) * ( 6) * ( 1) * ( 7) * (21) * ( 1) * ( 1) * (15) * ( 2) * ( 8) * ( 9) * ( 2) * ( 5) * ( 1) * ( 3) * (35) * (21) * ( 2) * ( 2) * (66) * ( 1) * ( 5) * ( 1) * ( 5) * ( 8) * ( 4) * (28) * ( 6) * (25) * ( 8) * (10) * (14) * ( 1) * (11) * (12) * (13) * ( 1) * (32) * (18) * (76) * ( 5) * (23)


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External links


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