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In Para-athletics competitions, athletes are given a class depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classes are as follows: [1] 11–13: Blind and visually impaired; 20: Intellectually disabled; 32–38: Athletes with cerebral palsy; classes 32–34 compete in wheelchairs, while 35–38 are ambulant
Logo of World Para Athletics Kenny van Weeghel in his racing chair at the 2006 IPC Athletics World Championships Annette Roozen competing in the long jump with her prosthetic leg. 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 ...
In Paralympic athletics competitions, athletes are given a class depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classes are as follows: [1] 11–13: Blind and visually impaired; 20: Intellectually disabled; 32–38: Athletes with cerebral palsy; classes 32–34 compete in wheelchairs, while 35–38 are ambulant
At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, three of the top four 'pilots' in the Men's individual pursuit for blind athletes were former elite level track cyclists in their own right, with four time 'Kilo' World Champion Francois Pervis of France becoming the third athlete to win both Olympic and Paralympic medals, as sighted 'pilot' for 'stoker' Raphael ...
It features athletics events contested by athletes with physical disabilities. The first IPC Athletics World Championships were held in Berlin, Germany in 1994. [1] They are a Paralympic parallel to the World Athletics Championships for able-bodied athletes. Since 2011, when they switched from a quadrennial scheduling to biennial, the IPC ...
Jaydin Blackwell celebrates after winning the men's 100-meter T13 final and setting a new world record during the 2024 Paris Paralympic Summer Games at the Stade de France in Paris on Aug. 31, 2024.
During the 2024 World Para Athletics Championships he won a gold medal in the 100 meters T38 event with a World Para Athletics Championships record time of 10.86. [6] He also won a gold medal in the 400 metres T38 event with a time of 48.87. [7] At the 2024 Summer Paralympics Blackwell won the gold medal in both the 100 metres T38 and the 400 ...
He set world records for athletes with a double amputation, in both the full and half marathon. [1] At the 2010 Chicago Marathon, he broke his previous world record for athletes with lower-limb amputations, with a time of 2:42:52. [2] Whitehead's then marathon record was beaten by 28 seconds by Marko Cheseto at the 2019 Boston Marathon. [3]