When to watch track and field during the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games

Track and field events will be held from Friday, August 30 to Saturday, September 8 at the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games.

The number of track and field events held at the Paralympic Games is staggering. Due to the number of impairment classifications and the popularity of the sport, a race like the men's 100m final at an Olympic Games translates to upwards of 30 individual 100m finals at the Paralympic Games.

All physical, vision and intellectual impairment classifications have participated in track and field Paralympic competition since the first edition in Rome in 1960.

Athlete classifications are made up from a letter and a number. The letter T refers to track and jumping events, while an F denotes field events. Refer to the table below for details on which numbers correspond to a particular Paralympic impairment classifications.

Venue

France’s largest stadium, Stade de France, will host all track and field events, except for the start of the Paralympic marathon, which will set out from La Courneuve, a suburb of Paris.

Paris 2024

Events

100m
T11, T12, T13, T34, T35, T36, T37, T38, T47, T53, T54, T63, T64 (women's-men's)
T51, T52 (men's)

200m
T35, T37, T64 (women's-men's)
T11, T12, T36, T47 (women's)
T51 (men's)

400m
T11, T12, T13, T20, T37, T38, T47, T53, T54 (women's-men's)
T36, T52, T62 (men's)

800m
T34, T53, T54 (women's-men's)

1500m
T11, T13, T20, T54 (women's-men's)
T38, T46 (men's)

5000m
T54 (women's-men's)
T11, T13 (men's)

Marathon
T12, T54 (women's-men's)

Relay
4x100m open relay (women's-men's)

Long jump
T11, T12, T20, T37, T38, T47, T63, T64 (women's-men's)
T13, T36 (men's)

Club throw
F32 (women's-men's)
F51 (men's)

High jump
T47, T63, T64 (men's)

Discus throw
F11, F64 (women's-men's)
F38, F41, F53, F55, F57 (women's)
F37, F52, F56 (men's)

Javelin throw
F13, F34, F46, F54 (women's-men's)
F56 (women's)
F38, F41, F57, F64 (men's)

Shot put
F12, F20, F32, F33, F34, F35, F37, F40, FR41, F46, F57 (women's-men's)
F54, F64 (women's)
F11, F36 , F53, F55, F63 (men's)

Team USA's roster for the Paris Paralympic Games is loaded with superstars like Nick Mayhugh, Ezra Frech, Roderick Townsend and Jaleen Roberts.

Mayghugh will make his second Paralympic Games appearance in Paris after a monster performance in Tokyo, where he collected three gold medals and a silver. Mayhugh also set a men's 100m T37 world record, winning that final in a blazing 10.95 seconds.

Frech, an 18-year-old from Los Angeles, says he's out for "redemption" in Paris after finishing fifth in the high jump and eighth in the long jump T63 events at the Tokyo Games. Frech has since blossomed, working under the guidance of Townsend, a four-time Paralympic medalist in the high jump. Frech won the 2023 world title and reset the world record multiple times, most recently at the U.S. Trials in July, where he jumped 1.97 meters. 

Townsend will return for a third Paralympic Games, and the veteran enters as a modern legend. At the Tokyo Games, he set a high jump T47 world record of 2.15m that still stands today, while claiming two more medals. In the meantime, Townsend has racked up five consecutive world high jump titles, a streak that dates back to 2015, his first year as an official Paralympic athlete.

Roberts, who earned silver medals in the 100m and long jump T37 in Tokyo, will shoot for gold in Paris. She is an eight-time world championship medalist with momentum.

Jaydin Blackwell also enters Paris on a hot streak. He's a two-time reigning world champion in the 100m and 400m T38. The 20-year-old broke a 13-year world record in the men's 400m T38 and was named the 2023 USATF U20 Men’s Athlete of the Year.

Noelle Malkamaki is likely to emerge as a star at these Paralympic Games. Malkamaki is a two-time reigning world champion in shot put F46 and has improved on the world record three separate times. She competed at the NCAA Division I level at DePaul University in Chicago, where she threw discus and hammer in addition to shot put.

Justin Phongsavanh earned javelin F54 bronze at the Tokyo Paralympics and is a serious medal contender in Paris. He claimed the silver medal at the Parapan American Games in 2023.

Derek Loccident is set for his Paralympic debut after earning two world silvers in the long jump T64 in 2023 and 2024, plus high jump silver in 2024 and 100m bronze the same year.

Hunter Woodhall, a three-time Paralympic medalist (1 silver, 2 bronze), will contend for his first gold medal on the heels of his wife, Tara Davis-Woodhall, winning gold in the Olympic women's long jump at the Paris Games.