Para-athletics

Logo of World Para Athletics
Kenny van Weeghel in his racing chair at the 2006 IPC Athletics World Championships
Annette Roozen competing in the long jump with her prosthetic leg.
Athletes with an intellectual disability after racing at the 2000 Summer Paralympics

Para-athletics is the sport of athletics practiced by people with a disability as a parasport. The athletics events within the parasport are mostly the same as those available to able-bodied people, with two major exceptions in wheelchair racing and the club throw, which are specific to the division. Certain able-bodied events are rarely contested as para-athletic events outside deaf sport; pole vault, triple jump, hammer (of which the club throw is sometimes considered the para-athletic equivalent) and the three hurdling events. The sport is known by various names, including disability athletics, disabled track and field and Paralympic athletics. Top-level competitors may be called elite athletes with disability.[1]

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