Paralympic Rowing: the Boat Classes Explained

Published: Aug 27, 2024 Duration: 00:01:41 Category: Sports

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as of Paris 2024 paroly rowing now has five boat classes ranging across three sport classes in the pr1 sport class there are the men's and women's single skulls each rower has two ores which is called skulling pr1 rowers will demonstrate rowing specific impairment affecting both the trunk swing and leg Drive pr1 rowers demonstrate significant limitations in the ability to use the sliding seat to propel the boat and therefore use fixed seats to compete in par rowing additionally pr1 rowers demonstrate significant impairment in the ability to generate Force through trunk swing rotating about the hips the PR2 and pr3 Sport classes both have the mixed double skulls the pr3 class also features the mixed Cox 4 the only sweep boat in par Olympic rowing sweep rowing is where each rower only has one or the Cox fall is also the only boat with a coxan PR2 rowers demonstrate rowing specific impairment primarily affecting the leg Drive PR2 rowers demonstrate significant limitations in the ability to use the sliding seat to propel the boat and therefore use fixed seats to compete in power rowing in pr3 rowing rowers with an eligible impairment who have functional use of their legs trunk and arms for rowing can utilize the sliding seat to propel the boat all boat CL mes raised across a distance of 2,000 m [Music]

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