Bbc sport's incredible athletes series explores the inspiring stories of paralympic hopefuls targeting medals at the 2020 games in tokyo.

Paralympic games famous athletes. Lucas is a brazilian athlete with the age of 36. The document has been permanently moved. He won three gold medals for brazil at the 2008.

The paralympic mascot for tokyo 2020 is. He was a member of the indian team at the 2016 summer paralympic games in rio de janeiro. He lost 90% of his vision in 2003 due to retinal detachment.

Group a match between team japan and team great britain at musashino forest sports plaza on day 2 of the. 17 rows new zealander neroli fairhall was the first paraplegic competitor in the olympic games. Team gb’s thomas was born with a rare genetic condition which affects his balance and coordination, but he didn’t realise he could compete as a paralympic athlete until three years.

Jessica long, 29 medals at the summer paralympics. This multidisciplinary athlete lost mobility in the legs after falling from a tree. The paralympics is full of iconic and inspirational moments and in just a few days the tokyo 2020 paralympic games looks set to deliver brand new ones.

She has bagged 20 gold and 5 silver paralympic medals. Around 700 of the world's best paralympic athletes will head to beijing as the city becomes the first to host both the summer and winter editions of the paralympic games. Here are all the malaysian paralympians heading to tokyo:

After this accident, marson participated in the paralympic games of. Tokyo will make history as the first city to stage the paralympic games for a second time, having hosted the event in 1964. Beatrice hess is a paralympic swimmer from france and is considered one of the best swimmers in the world.