Depending on the kind of sport, the wheelchair used will enable.

Paralympic athlete wheelchair. Official website of the paralympic. Wheelchair curling is open to athletes who have a physical impairment in the lower half of their body. The wheelchairs used in para sports are suited to fit athletes’ bodies and their impairments, depending on their sport, and allow them to maximise their performances in.

She has represented her country in multiple sports including athletics, shot put,. Wheelchair rugby was developed in canada in the 1970’s by athletes with quadriplegia. The wheelchairs that are used in the paralympics are designed to fit athletes’ impairments and bodies.

The skill of the athlete, coupled with this new prosthetic technology, enabled oscar to enter qualification in the men’s 400m sprint in both the olympic and paralympic games. Team ireland athlete patrick flanagan said he was gutted when he found out that his wheelchair had been broken on his journey to tokyo to compete in the 2020 paralympic. It is now practiced in 24 different countries.

For wheelchair sport athletes, there is extra luggage they have to factor in. Men’s wheelchair basketball has featured at every paralympic games since 1960. Athletes with an intellectual disability after racing at the 2000 summer paralympics.

Wheelchair tennis is practiced in more than 100 different countries. Wheelchair fencing was developed by sir ludwig guttmann at the stoke mandeville hospital and was introduced to the world at the rome 1960 paralympic games. Official website of the paralympic.

Women’s competition was introduced in 1968.