With the Paris 2024 Paralympics well under way, we take a look at how the classification system works in para-sport – and how ...

Classification has matured enormously since the Paralympic Movement first began. Initially, classification was based on medical evaluation, placing little emphasis on assessing the impact of ...

Athletes from around the world are in Paris for the 2024 Paralympic Games. The Games will feature more than 4,000 athletes with various disabilities competing in 549 medal events. To ensure all ...

The Classification Code of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), inter alia, mandates the development of evidence-based systems of classification. This paper provides a scientific background ...

A higher number seen as part of a classification signifies a less severe impairment, while lower numbers denote the most severe. Unlike other Paralympic sports, the use of a prostheses is not ...

Method A four-round Delphi study was conducted with 25 participants who had expertise as a coach, athlete, classifier and/or administrator in Paralympic sport for VI athletes. Results The experts ...

It is a new Paralympic category for McKillop, whose previous gold came in T37 which was removed prior to the 2019 World Championships. Five years on from becoming Northern Ireland's first boccia ...

However, a CNN Sport analysis has found that many of their Paralympic colleagues are being paid less to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. In many countries, National Olympic and ...

Paralympic Games at the pool in the swimming ... intellectual and visual. The classification system uses ‘S’ for freestyle, butterfly, and backstroke; ‘SB’ for breaststroke; and ‘SM ...

Only three of 22 sports at this year's Paralympics included events for II athletes, and despite it being an umbrella category, there was only one class in which athletes could compete. But a ...