World Para Athletics Championships
| Sport | Athletics |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1994 |
| Continent | International (IPC) |
| TV partner(s) | ParalympicSport.TV (Web-TV) |
The IPC Athletics World Championships is an event organized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Athletes with a physical disability compete, and in a few events athletes with an intellectual disability compete. Originally, it was organised every four years, but this changed in 2011, and it is since organised biennially.[1]
The first IPC Athletics World Championships was held in Berlin, Germany in 1994.[2][3]
Championships
| Edition | Year | City | Country | Date | Venue | No. of Events |
No. of Athletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1994 () | Berlin |  Germany
|
22 Jul – 31 Jul | Berlin Olympiastadion | 1154 | |
| 2nd | 1998 () | Birmingham |  United Kingdom
|
Aug – Aug | Alexander Stadium | over 1000 | |
| 3rd | 2002 () | Lille |  France
|
20 Jul – 28 Jul | Stadium Nord Lille Métropole | ||
| 4th | 2006 () | Assen |  Netherlands
|
2 Sep – 10 Sep | De Smelt | 1200 | |
| 5th | 2011 () | Christchurch |  New Zealand
|
21 Jan – 30 Jan | Queen Elizabeth II Park | 213 | 1060 |
| 6th | 2013 () | ||||||
| 7th | 2015 () |
Classification
- F = field athletes
- T = track athletes
- P = pentathlon
- 11-13 - visually impaired, compete with a sighted guide
- 20 - intellectual disability
- 40 - dwarfism
- 31-38 - cerebral palsy
- 41-46 - amputation, others
- 51-58 - wheelchair athletes
See also
References
- ^ Downloads & Forms, IPC Athletics
- ^ IPC Athletics World Championships To Begin in France, International Paralympic Committee, 19 July 2002
- ^ The cultural politics of the paralympic movement, By David Howe, 2008, Social Science, Google Books
- New Athletics World Records Set in Lille, International Paralympic Committee (IPC), 25 July 2002
- III ATHLETICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS - I.P.C 2002 - program & Results (archived, Wayback Machine)
- US Captures 11 Gold Medals in IPC World Championships, The O&P EDGE, October 2002
- 2006 IPC World Championships In Athletics - Selection Criteria, Athletics Canada
- Dr. Detlef Eckert startet bei der Leichtathletik-WM der Behinderten gleich dreimal (German), Berliner Zeitung, July 22, 1994
- Vom Rehabilitationssport zu den Paralympics (German), Sportmuseum Leipzig
- More victories for disabled athletes, Mail & Guardian Online, Aug 17 1998
- More gold for disabled athletes, Mail & Guardian Online, Aug 14 1998
- Alexander Stadium, newman.ac.uk
- Maxxyz Controlled Martin Lighting Package for IPC Athletics World Championships, livetime.nl, November 7, 2006
