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  2. Handicapping - Wikipedia

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    A handicap race in horse racing is a race in which horses carry different weights, allocated by the handicapper. A better horse will carry a heavier weight, to give him or her a disadvantage when racing against slower horses. The handicapper's goal in assigning handicap weights is to enable all the horses to finish together (in a dead heat).

  3. Disability sport classification - Wikipedia

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    Disability sports classification is a system that allows for fair competition between people with different types of disabilities.. Historically, the process has been overseen by 2 groups: specific disability type sport organizations that cover multiple sports, and specific sport organizations that cover multiple disability types including amputations, cerebral palsy, deafness, intellectual ...

  4. Athletics abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Most records are subject to ratification by the governing body for that record. On the world level, that is World Athletics.Each body has their own procedure for ratifying the records: for example, USA Track & Field (USATF), the governing body for the United States, only ratifies records once a year at their annual meeting at the beginning of December.

  5. Handicap - Wikipedia

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    Handicap race (disambiguation) Handicap (chess) Handicap (golf) Handicap (go) Handicap (sailing) Handicap (shogi) Handicapping, various methods of outcome prediction or levelling outcome predictions: Asian handicap, bookmakers' technique to level odds

  6. Polo handicap - Wikipedia

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    The players are rated on a scale from minus-2 to 10. Minus-2 indicates a novice player, while a player rated at 10 goals has the highest handicap possible. It is so difficult to attain a 10-goal handicap that there are fewer than two dozen in the world, and about two-thirds of all players handicapped are rated at two goals or less.

  7. Sport - Wikipedia

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    The word "sport" comes from the Old French desport meaning "leisure", with the oldest definition in English from around 1300 being "anything humans find amusing or entertaining". [ 8 ] Other meanings include gambling and events staged for the purpose of gambling; hunting; and games and diversions, including ones that require exercise. [ 9 ]

  8. T44 (classification) - Wikipedia

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    [37] It can also mean in Australia that the athlete is "ambulant with moderately reduced function in one or both lower limbs." [37] In Australia, the corresponding class for based on disability type classes are A2, A3, A9, and LAF5. [37] Field events open to this class have included shot put, discus and javelin.

  9. 2015 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship squads

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    No. Name Date of birth Height Weight Spike Block 2015 club 1: Woo Sumin: 7 November 1998: 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) 66 kg (146 lb) 288 cm (113 in) 280 cm (110 in)