Also, athletes with significant restrictions across hip, knee and ankle joints.

What is s8 in paralympics. Video of s8 women's 100 butterfly from beijing: S8 is a disability swimming classification used for categorizing swimmers based on their level of disability. In para sports, athletes are grouped by the degree of activity limitation resulting from the impairment.

S8 is for swimmers with coordination affected to a low level, movement moderately affected in the legs, the use of one arm only, or. This class includes a number of different disabilities including people. The numbers used with s, sb, and sm.

S8 swimmers who have had one arm amputated are permitted to compete in this sport category. Also, athletes with significant restrictions across hip, knee and ankle joints. Also, athletes with significant restrictions across hip, knee and ankle joints.

For this reason, a prefix is. In swimming, s refers to freestyle, butterfly, and backstroke events. 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 classification of athletes in this sport is. Meanwhile, sb stands for breaststroke. This, to a certain extent, is similar to grouping athletes by age, gender or weight.

The international paralympic committee has six disability categories, but not every sport allows for every disability. The classes are prefixed with s for freestyle, butterfly and. The sport class names in swimming consist of a prefix “s” or “sb” and a number.