Although 2024 will be mainly remembered for the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, Great Britain & Northern Ireland were out in force competing this year at multiple championships.

We take a brief trip down memory lane to remind ourselves of the highlights of the Para Athletics World Championships where GB & NI finished fourth on the medal table with seven gold, two silver and three bronze medals. 

Hannah Cockroft (Paul Moseley; Leeds) was the star performer of the squad in Japan as she successfully defended her T34 100m and 800m crowns, to take her global title tally to an incredible 16.

Her 100m victory represented the seventh global gold of her distinguished career, whilst the 800m win was her fifth.

After taking the 100m title with 16.89 after clocking a 16.67 Championship record in the heats, Cockroft stormed to a 1:52.79 Championship record over two laps, before returning to the track less than an hour later to help her British team-mates to Universal 4x100m Relay silver.

With a sixth consecutive F63 shot put title, Aled Davies (Ryan Spencer-Jones; Cardiff) celebrated his 33rd birthday in style to claim world title number 10, winning by almost a meter with a huge 15.60m effort.

In the F46 javelin, Hollie Arnold (Scott Knighton; Blackheath and Bromley) collected her sixth consecutive title – eleven years after her first – with a mammoth 40.89m throw.

Elsewhere, 2020 Paralympic champion Jonathan Broom-Edwards (Beth Miller; Newham and Essex Beagles) captured his third consecutive T64 high jump title, having cleared 2.04m on his first attempt, whilst Paralympic champion and world record holder, Dan Pembroke (John Trower; Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow) unleashed a 66.96m final-round throw to retain his F13 javelin crown.

Improving the world record twice en-route to F20 shot put glory, Sabrina Fortune (Ryan Spencer-Jones; Deeside) registered a super 14.73m sixth-round effort – after reaching 14.56m in round one – to enjoy her third consecutive world title.

It was T38 100m silver for Paralympic champion, Thomas Young (Joe McDonnell; Charnwood), who sped to 11.02 (0.8), whilst the Universal 4x100m Relay team – anchored by Cockroft – claimed silver with a 47.50 clocking. Zac Shaw (Leon Baptiste; Cleethorpes), Kevin Santos (Mike Utting; City of Norwich) and Ali Smith (Benke Blomkvist; Guildford & Godalming) combined to clinch Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s final medal of the Championships.

Prior to the relay, co-Captain Shaw sprinted to T12 100m bronze from lane seven with a 10.97 (0.1) clocking, whilst Harrison Walsh (Ryan Spencer-Jones; Swansea) took the F64 discus bronze with a 52.48m final round effort, his first global medal.

A third bronze medal arrived from Nathan Maguire (Steven Hoskins; Kirkby) who – after placing fifth in the T54 800m and sixth in the T54 400m finals, respectively – edged the medal by 0.03 of a second in a thrilling finish.