The international paralympic committee has six disability categories, but not every sport allows for every disability.

What is s8 in paralympics. The classification of athletes in this sport is. Also, athletes with significant restrictions across hip, knee and ankle joints. The sport class names in swimming consist of a prefix “s” or “sb” and a number.

In para sports, athletes are grouped by the degree of activity limitation resulting from the impairment. S8 sb7 swimmers who have an amputation of one arm are eligible to compete in this sport class. S8 swimming is designed for swimmers with coordination affected to a low level, movement moderately affected in the legs, the use of one arm only, or the absence of limbs.

Also, athletes with significant restrictions across hip, knee and ankle joints. S8 is for swimmers with coordination affected to a low level, movement moderately affected in the legs, the use of one arm only, or. The numbers used with s, sb, and sm.

S8 is a disability swimming classification used for categorizing swimmers based on their level of disability. The classes are prefixed with s for freestyle, butterfly and. Also, athletes with significant restrictions across hip, knee and ankle joints.

Athletes with physical impairments either compete on handcycles, tricycles or bicycles while athletes with a vision impairment compete on tandems with a sighted ‘pilot’. The australian paralympic committee employs a classification manager to assist athletes and sports in australia and has an extensive classification program. The prefixes stand for the strokes and the number indicates the sport classes.

S8 sb7 swimmers who have an amputation of one arm are eligible to compete in this sport class. Video of s8 women's 100 butterfly from beijing: Meanwhile, sb stands for breaststroke.