Germany’s Heinrich Popow first burst onto the scene with a long jump bronze at the 2002 Lille IPC World Championships. At his first Paralympics in Athens 2004, he won three bronze medals in the 100m, 200m and long jump. By the end of his career, he had seven Paralympic medals and as many from World Championships.

Popow spoke to News18 Sports on the sidelines of the World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi, discussing the evolution of para-sport, why he sees the IPC as a stronger organisation than WPA and why Germany is falling behind in para-sport.

Your first participation at the Paralympics was in Athens 2004. From then till Rio 2016, how much have you seen para-sport evolve?

The development of para-sport has been really positive and what I appreciate most is that it feels ge

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