Athletes with a physical impairment seek classification through swimming australia where do i find out further information?

Paralympics categories swimming. These swimmers find it hard to understand and apply training techniques and competition strategies, especially in busy. Like the cycling, each class will begin. The classes are prefixed with s for freestyle, butterfly and.

This system is called classification. The category for the most severe level of impairment,. There are also three classifications of visual impairment and s14 for.

Full database of world para swimming world rankings. Search by date, event, gender, classification or ranking type (world, european etc). Category 11 corresponds to totally blind swimmers, while competitors.

Riders with a visual impairment compete on a tandem with a sighted ‘pilot’ in the b class. The lower the number, the more severe the impact of the. The paralympic games summer games.

The international swimming federation’s rules are followed with a few modifications, such as. Swimmers are classified with regards to their functional ability on each stroke, and can compete in freestyle, backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke and medley events. S14 is for swimmers who have an intellectual impairment.

Official website of world para swimming. S1 sb1 swimmers in this sport class. Blind and visually impaired swimmers compete within separate categories, being allocated to categories 11, 12 or 13.