Swimming events at the paralympics have 14 different sport classes.

Paralympics categories swimming. S1 sb1 swimmers in this sport class. The classes are prefixed with s for freestyle, butterfly and. The prefixes stand for the strokes and the number indicates the sport classes.

Search by date, event, gender, classification or ranking type (world, european etc). S14 is for swimmers who have an intellectual impairment. This system is called classification.

Ten eligible impairments there are ten different types. There are three types of classification: Like the cycling, each class will begin.

Swimmers are classified with regards to their functional ability on each stroke, and can compete in freestyle, backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke and medley events. Official website of world para swimming. The sport class names in swimming consist of a prefix “s” or “sb” and a number.

Blind and visually impaired swimmers compete within separate categories, being allocated to categories 11, 12 or 13. Full database of world para swimming world rankings. Each race occurs in a 50m.

Category 11 corresponds to totally blind swimmers, while competitors. The international swimming federation’s rules are followed with a few modifications, such as. The explanatory guide to paralympic classification explains each classification in detail below.