they meet the minimum impairment criteria), the next stage of classification is to assign a sport class to reflect the athlete's specific level of impairment. At present, athletes with VI are ...

a system still used in many para-sports today (an exception being the classification system used for athletes with a visual impairment which still remains medically based). The main factor that ...

In all cases the sport specific classification rules will take precedence ... or an equivalent activity limitation in sailing caused by the other eligible impairment types. These athletes may also ...

IPC Swimming, the International Federation for para-swimming, has announced the start of a three-year review into the sport’s physical and visual impairment classification systems which will get ...

Known as cerebral (or cortical) visual impairment (CVI), some estimates suggest that at least 3% of primary school children exhibit CVI-related visual problems, which vary, but may include ...

Visually Impaired: Athletes with visual impairment ... Cycling at the Paralympics also has its own classification systems, including the C1-C5 classes. C1-C5 relates to Parathletes who are ...