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The class includes people with a number of different types of disabilities including spinal cord injuries and cerebral palsy. Similar classifications are T52 , T53, T54 and T55. It is for sportspeople with minimal upper body function who use a wheelchair, spinal cord injury class F1 and Les Autres class LAF1.
A man with a disability sitting in a wheelchair. A wheelchair is a mobilized form of chair using 2 or more wheels, a footrest, and an armrest usually cushioned. It is used when walking is difficult or impossible to do due to illnesses, injury, disabilities, or age-related health conditions.
The class includes people with spinal cord injuries who compete using a wheelchair in track events. They have paraplegia, but have normal hand and arm function, normal or limited trunk function, and no leg function. This class includes CP-ISRA classes CP3 and CP4, and some athletes in ISOD classes A1, A2 and A3.
In wheelchair races, the winner and time is determined by when the center of the front axle goes across the finish line. [12] Athletes in this class used secure frames for throwing events. The frame can be only one of two shapes: A rectangle or square. The sides must be at least 30 centimetres (12 in) long.
One of the few photographs of FDR in his wheelchair, as he generally refused to be photographed in or around it. Roosevelt, who had been crippled in 1921, went to great lengths to hide his depedence on the wheelchair, to the point of actually teaching himself to walk with iron braces on his legs so as to keep up appearences.
Troy Sachs is a 4.5-point player. 4.5-point player is a disability sport classification for wheelchair basketball.Players in this class tend to have normal trunk movement, few problems with side-to-side movements, and ability to reach to the side of their chair.
The shot put used by women in this class weighs less than the traditional one at 3 kilograms (6.6 lb). [40] In the United States, people in this class are allowed to use strapping on the non-throwing hand as a way to anchor themselves to the chair. [28] There are performance differences and similarities between this class and other wheelchair ...
100 m 18.06 gold medal at the 2012 Paralympic Games Cockroft winning the 100 m T34 qualifying heat at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Hannah Lucy Cockroft [3] OBE DL (born 30 July 1992) is a British wheelchair racer specialising in sprint distances in the T34 classification and TV presenter.