2017 is the most successful year in World Para-athletics Championship

London Stadium came alive as the World Para-athletics Championships took place at the home of the 2012 Paralympic Games.

The World Para Athletics Championships, previously known as the IPC Athletics World Championships, are a biennial Paralympic athletics event organised by a subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee.

Athletics - IAAF World ParaAthletics Championships - London, Britain - Jul 20, 2017 Hannah Cockroft of Great Britain after winning gold in the women's 400 metre T34 final and Georgina Hermitage of Great Britain after winning gold in the women's 400 metre T37 Reuters

It features athletics events contested by athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities. The athletes are classified according to their impairment and compete against athletes with similar impairments.

This year’s games sold 280,000 tickets, more than all of the eight previous championships combined. The games hosted 1,074 competitors from 92 nations.

As of Jul 22, China leads with 57 medals, while the US and Great Britain follow with 53 and 35 respectively.

Some highlights of this year’s games were when Indian high jumpers Sharad Kumar and Varun Bhati won a silver and bronze medal and when Michael Mckillop of Ireland won gold in the Men's 1500m.

Athletics - IAAF World ParaAthletics Championships - London, Britain - Jul 22, 2017 Argentina's Ja Avellaneda prepares to jump in the Men's High Jump T42 Final Reuters

Kadeena Cox, who has multiple sclerosis, won Britain's 14th gold medal at the World Para-athletics Championships in the women's T38 400m.

Cox, 26, had also won gold medals in cycling and sprinting at the Paralympics in 2016.

With the 2017 games being declared the most successful ever, Andrew Parsons, the paralympic movement's vice president, is enthusiastic about the championships returning to the UK capital again in the future.

"No one organises para sport like Britain does, and no one supports it like the British public. No-brainer.”