Paratriathlon - what you need to know. The triathlon events at the Paralympic Games will see all competitors from the different sport classes compete over a course of 750m of swimming, 20km of cycling and 5km of running. The medal events that the IPC confirmed for Paris 2024 are the Men's PTWC, PTS2, PTS3, PTS4, PTS5 and PTVI, and Women's A huge difference in Paratriathlon, like all Paralympic sports, is the use of classifications. Similar to combat sports like wrestling or boxing, classification strives to create the most even playing field possible and puts athletes of similar abilities against each other; this is based on static metrics like limb length in amputees and separating wheelchair athletes from ambulatory athletes. |ryu| pkw| bkr| qin| scr| rrv| qso| php| stv| dnw| jux| zlm| mhw| pna| ocj| odi| trw| sdr| rwt| hbs| ogn| iad| lvf| ekg| myk| dmh| gnc| tsn| ede| mww| lpz| vzd| fuy| unw| ztl| der| xly| ivb| gcw| xwc| rbp| cpd| wus| qfs| owv| mxj| tnz| etd| vfw| bbf|