Class A (classification)

Class A is a Paralympic wheelchair fencing classification.

Sport

This is a Paralympic wheelchair fencing classification.[1] In 2000, BBC Sport defined this classification as "class A incorporates those athletes with good balance and recovery and full trunk movement"[2] In 2008, BBC Sport defined this classification was "A: Athletes with good balance and recovery, and full trunk movement."[1]

Becoming classified

Classification is handled by International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation.[3]

At the Paralympic Games

For the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, the International Paralympic Committee had a zero classification at the Games policy. This policy was put into place in 2014, with the goal of avoiding last minute changes in classes that would negatively impact athlete training preparations. All competitors needed to be internationally classified with their classification status confirmed prior to the Games, with exceptions to this policy being dealt with on a case by case basis.[4]

gollark: > If someone found tomorrow that you could create energy from nothing, and it can't be proved that that can't happen unless you already start from a model, the models would have to be updated.
gollark: Correction again: conservation of energy is from "Émilie du Châtelet".
gollark: Well, your view isn't actually objective truth.
gollark: I'm pretty sure it was Noether, and you seem to have ignored what I just said.
gollark: If someone found tomorrow that you could create energy from nothing, and it can't be proved that that *can't* happen unless you already start from a model, the models would have to be updated.

References
  1. "A-Z of Paralympic classification". BBC Sport. 28 August 2008. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  2. "Making sense of the categories". United Kingdom: BBC Sports. 6 October 2000. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  3. "Guide to the Paralympic Games – Appendix 1" (PDF). London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 2011. p. 41. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  4. "Rio 2016 Classification Guide" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. International Paralympic Committee. March 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 16, 2016. Retrieved July 22, 2016.


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