atletismo paralímpicos

Athletics is the largest discipline in the par Olympic Games program encompassing a variety of events track events with distances ranging from 100 to 10,000 M jumping and throwing competitions and the marathon which is celebrated on the streets some athletes compete in wheelchairs with prosthetic limbs or with the assistance of a guide for those with visual impairments in addition to being the discipline with the highest number of athletes and events in the par Olympic Games Athletics also includes the greatest number of disability categories each participant is assigned a two-digit category where the first digit indicates the type of functional disability they have and the second digit represents the degree of impairment with a lower number indicating a more severe impairment categories 11 to 13 athletes who are blind or have severe to moderate visual impairment category 20 athletes with intellectual disabilities categories 31 to 64 individuals with physical disabilities or cerebral py classes 31 to 38 participants with coordination issues some of whom use wheelchairs 31 to 34 classes 40 to 41 athletes with dwarfism categories 42 to 44 athletes with lower limb impairments who compete without Prosthetics classes 45 to 47 athletes with Upper Limb impairments classes 51 to 57 include wheelchair Racers or throwers who compete while seated catgories 61 to 64 athletes with lower limb impairments who compete with prosthetics