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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).
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 ...
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.
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
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.
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 ]
[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.
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)