At the centre of today’s paralympic classification system used to allow athletes to qualify for paralympic sports events is a list of eligible impairments drawn up by the ipc.

Qualifications for paralympics. The paralympic movement offers sport opportunities for athletes that have an impairment that belongs to one of the ten eligible impairment types identified in the “policy on eligible. Sport class criteria and parameters are defined and put in place by each sport's international federation (if) with the aim of minimizing the impact of impairment and to ensure. In the paralympic games, the eligibility criteria differ across sports and disability groups.

Official website of world para athletics. Examples of the minimum impairment criteria include maximum height defined for athletes with short stature or a level of amputation defined for athletes with limb deficiency. Similarly, the olympics have national and international olympic committees (noc and.

For more details, you can check the list of eligible sports on the international paralympic committee’s website. The minimum qualification scores for the tokyo 2020 paralympic games are as follows. Like the cycling, each class will begin.

The tokyo 2020 paralympic games will feature around 4,400 athletes who will compete in 539 medal events. Ⓒnpc ukraine beijing 2023 paralympic qualification criteria the final medal event programme and athlete quotas were approved by the ipc governing board, confirming that. Click on the sport summary pages to find out more about eligibility for your.

An npc can allocate a maximum of 34 male and 28 female qualification slots in a maximum of 62 qualification slots. The paralympics have national and international paralympic committees (npc and ipc). Placement at world championships placement at regional/zonal championships or regional games placement in other if sanctioned.

Swimming events at the paralympics have 14 different sport classes. Athletes can have eligible physical, intellectual, or visual impairments. To be eligible to compete in para athletics, a person must have an eligible impairment and meet the minimum impairment criteria set out in the world para athletics classification rules and.