2008 Events
The competition program includes Track & Field events, Throwing and Jumping events. It involves the largest number of both female and male athletes in a variety of classifications.
Program (for both men and women):
Track
100m | 200m | 400m | 800m | 1500m | 5000m
Jumps
High Jump | Long Jump
Throws
Javelin *Note the ambulatory javelin runway will be a grass runway | Shot Put | Discus | Club Throw
Classifications as below:
- Classes 11, 12, 13 cover various levels of visual impairments.
- Classes 32-38 cover athletes with cerebral palsy (both wheelchair users 32-34 and ambulatory athletes 35-38).
- Classes 40-46 covers ambulatory athletes with various levels of amputations and other disabilities (i.e. Les Autres - dwarfism, dysmelia, arthrogryposis etc..).
Classes 51-58 covers athletes (wheelchair users) with various levels of spinal cord injury and amputations.
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