Blind Paralympic Sports
22 summer and six winter.
Blind paralympic sports. With the rio 2016 paralympics now underway. It is used by a number of blind sports including blind tennis para alpine skiing para nordic skiing blind cricket blind golf five a side football goalball and judo some other sports including adaptive rowing athletics and swimming have equivalents to. Football 5 a side teams are made up of four outfield players and one goalkeeper.
The two newest sports to be given paralympic status are badminton and taekwondo which will both make their debut at the tokyo 2020 games. Athletes compete in up to 22 sports at the summer paralympics and six at the winter paralympics as listed below. There are currently 28 paralympic sports sanctioned by the ipc.
Within each sport there are classification numbers attributed according to the type of disability. Canadian blind sports have not been able to run any camps or testing for the upcoming cycle. The paralympic sports comprise all the sports contested in the summer and winter paralympic games as of 2016 the summer paralympics included 22 sports and 526 medal events and the winter paralympics include 5 sports and disciplines and about 72 events.
The number and kinds of events may change from one paralympic games to another. The recognized national sport organization for the paralympic sport of goalball and advocates within the sport system for canadians who are visually impaired or blind. The newest winter sport is snowboard which was first introduced at the.
Here is your guide to the paralympic sports that are open to visually impaired competitors. Athletes in this classification are totally or almost totally blind. B1 is a medical based paralympic classification for blind sport.
It featured at the paralympics for the first time at athens 2004 and has been contested at every games since. To reach our objectives we encourage all blind and visually impaired people to get involved in different sports and physical activities. The sport has been governed by the international blind sports federation ibsa since 1996 and it is played with modified fifa rules.
Working in partnership with sport canada canadian blind sports have had to. We have listed here the sport and the classification codes associated with visual impairment. You too can become a blind athlete and take part in competitions ranging from school sports to elite level championships for the blind and the paralympic games.
