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Paralympics categories swimming. What are the swimming classes? Swimming events at the paralympics have 14 different sport classes. The lower the number, the more severe the impact of the.

These swimmers find it hard to understand and apply training techniques and competition strategies, especially in busy. Riders with a visual impairment compete on a tandem with a sighted ‘pilot’ in the b class. There are ten classifications of physical impairment with s1 the most severe and s10 the least severe.

There are three types of classification: S14 is for swimmers who have an intellectual impairment. Blind and visually impaired swimmers compete within separate categories, being allocated to categories 11, 12 or 13.

The classes are prefixed with s for freestyle, butterfly and. The prefixes stand for the strokes and the number indicates the sport classes. Swimmers are classified with regards to their functional ability on each stroke, and can compete in freestyle, backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke and medley events.

Like the cycling, each class will begin. Official website of world para swimming. Athletes with a physical impairment seek classification through swimming australia where do i find out further information?

This system is called classification. The sport class names in swimming consist of a prefix “s” or “sb” and a number. Full database of world para swimming world rankings.