para athletics

thumb|Logo of World Para Athletics thumb|280px| Kenny van Weeghel in his racing chair at the [[2006 IPC Athletics World Championships]] thumb|Annette Roozen competing in the [[long jump with her prosthetic leg.]] thumb|Athletes with an intellectual disability after racing at the 2000 Summer Paralympics

Para-athletics is the sport of athletics practiced by people with a disability as a parasport. The athletics events within the parasport are mostly the same as those available to able-bodied people, with two major exceptions in wheelchair racing and the club throw, which are specific to the division. Certain able-bodied events are rarely contested as para-athletic events outside deaf sport; pole vault, triple jump, hammer (of which the club throw is sometimes considered the para-athletic equivalent) and the three hurdling events. The sport is known by various names, including disability athletics, disabled track and field and Paralympic athletics. Top-level competitors may be called elite athletes with disability.