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Paralympics s9 category. Meaning of disability categories explained ‘there are 10 different sport classes for athletes with a physical. Events are held over distances of 200 metres. She received the 2015 paralympic swimmer of the year award from swimming australia.

Athletes competing in paralympic sports fall broadly into three categories: It is used for the purposes of. S9, s14, sb9 and more.

They are the same categories as used for the summer paralympics. Sm refers to individual medley. S10 (classification) s10, sb9, sm10 are disability swimming classifications used for categorizing swimmers based on their level of disability.

Within each of the disability categories,. Swimmers in this class tend to have minimal. A total of seven events were.

The classes are prefixed with s for freestyle, butterfly and. After an athlete has been designated as eligible for a sport, the classification panel will assess which sport class the athlete will compete in. Deciding an athlete’s sports class.

For athletes with physical impairments, there are 10 different numeric classifications for each stroke: It determines which athletes are eligible to participate and the structure for how they are categorised for. The swimming events will take place from 25 august in tokyo.