Players with the least impairment receive the most points.

Paralympics qualifying disabilities. 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. The paralympics is focused on sports that are engaged in by athletes with particular physical disabilities. Most of spain's basketball players at sydney.

How the paralympics checks intellectual disability. Curin was supposed to be in the pool at tokyo's aquatic centre this year, as one of france's. Classification is a structure for competition and is one of biggest differences between the olympic and paralympic games.

People with learning/intellectual disabilities and the paralympic games paralympic is from the greek preposition αά, pará (beside or alongside) and refers to a competition held in parallel. Welcome to the labyrinthine world of paralympic classification. You have to have a.

Athletes in the sport are classified according to their level of impairment within a wheelchair and given a point rating. There are 4,403 paralympic athletes competing in tokyo, each with unique disabilities that need to be classified to ensure fairness for all. You don’t just have to have a disability;

Ten eligible impairment types in the paralympics. This is a huge achievement for both inas and the ipc.”. By bethan jinkinson and claudia hammond.

Michael murray, 21, is one of the athletes with an intellectually impairment who has been selected. Paralympism, paralympic values and disability sport: Another example of a role model changing perceptions is australian comedian, writer and broadcaster.