| Events at the 2024 World Para Athletics Championships | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Track events | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 5000 m | men | women |
| 4×100 m relay | Universal relay | |
| Field events | ||
| Long jump | men | women |
| High jump | men | |
| Shot put | men | women |
| Discus throw | men | women |
| Javelin throw | men | women |
| Club throw | men | women |
The women's discus throw events at the 2024 World Para Athletics Championships were held in Kobe.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| F11 | |||
| F38 | |||
| F41 | |||
| F53 [1] | Elizabeth Rodrigues Gomes  Brazil | Keiko Onidani  Japan | Elena Gorlova  Neutral Paralympic Athletes (NPA) |
| F55 [2] | Erica María Castaño Salazar  Colombia | Dong Feixia  China | Rosa María Guerrero  Mexico |
| F57 [3] | Nguyễn Thị Hải  Vietnam | María de los Ángeles Ortiz Mexico | Myadagmaa Tumursuren  Mongolia |
| F64 |
The 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships was held in Christchurch, New Zealand from January 21 to 30, 2011. Athletes with a disability competed, and the Championships was a qualifying event for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
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Mi Na is a Chinese Paralympic athlete who competes in throwing events for F37 classification cerebral palsy athletes.
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Katherine Proudfoot is a cerebral palsy athlete from Australia competing mainly in throwing events. She competed in the F36 classification at the 2008, 2012 and the 2016 Summer Paralympics, winning medals at each Game. Following a medical review request in early 2017, she now competes in seated throws in the F32 classification. At the 2017 Australian Athletics Championships she threw 7.04m in the Women's Shot Put Secured event, bettering the Women's F32 shot put world record mark of 6.55m.
T52 is disability sport classification for disability athletics. People in this class have good shoulder and upper body control, but lack fine motor skills in their arms and hands. They have no to limited trunk and leg function. The class includes people with a number of different types of disabilities including spinal cord injuries. Similar classifications are T51, T53 and T54.
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Renata Śliwińska is a Polish Paralympic athlete competing in F40-classification discus throw and shot put events. She won the gold medal in the women's shot put F40 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan. In this event, she is also a two-time gold medalist at the World Para Athletics European Championships and a three-time medalist, including gold, at the World Para Athletics Championships.
Fatema Nedham is a Paralympic athlete from Bahrain. She is the first female Paralympic athlete to win a medal at the Summer Paralympics for Bahrain. She represented the country at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and she won the gold medal in the women's shot put F53 event with a throw of 4.76 metres. She was also the flag bearer for her country during the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
The men's discus throw events at the 2024 World Para Athletics Championships were held in Kobe.