On the eve of his fifth Paralympics appearance, Gillette took a moment to reflect: On being blind by around 10 years old. On discovering the long jump through a gym class.

Oksana Zubkovska has won the "gold" of the 2024 Paralympic Games in the long jump competition of the T12 class (athletes with visual impairments). This is reported by Suspilne Sport. Oksana won gold ...

Germany's Markus Rehm has left it open whether he will seek a fifth straight Paralympics long jump gold 2028 in Los Angeles but he is not finished yet in the sport where he still dreams of leaping ...

That day, the jumper broke the world record in the long jump in her original classification (T62), with a mark of 6.74 meters, finishing second behind Ivana Spanovic, 2022 world indoor champion ...

She also won gold at the 2017 London World Championships in the long jump. At the Tokyo 2021 Paralympics, she won silver in the 100 meters behind Ambra Sabatini and ahead of Monica Contrafatto in ...

Get to know Hunter Woodhall and Tara Davis-Woodhall, the golden couple of Paris 2024. Hunter won the men’s 400m T62 event at the Paris 2024 Paralympics, just weeks after his wife Tara became the women ...

Russia’s track and field athlete Khetag Khinchanov won the gold medal on Wednesday at the 2024 Paris Summer Paralympic Games in the men’s long jump. Khinchagov jumped the distance of 6 meters ...

The popular black-and-gray T-shirt featuring the mantra of blind long jumper Lex Gillette currently remains sold out on his website. After the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, the 36-year-old from North ...