Cycling at the Summer Paralympics

Cycling at the Summer Paralympics
Governing body IPC
Events 44 (men: 30; women: 12; mixed: 2)
Games
1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980
1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004
2008 • 2012 • 2016
Medalists • Records

Cycling has been contested at every Summer Paralympic Games since the 1984 Summer Paralympics.

Classification

Cyclists with visual impairments are paired with a sighted pilot. Here Scott McPhee pilots to Kieran Modra's stocker.

Cyclists are given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classification system allows cyclists to compete against others with a similar level of function.[1]

At the 2008 Summer Paralympics and earlier, classes were:

At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, a functional para-cycling classification system was used.

Factoring

In some cycling events, cyclists with different classifications compete against each other for one set of medals. Many (but not all) such events are factored, reducing the times of riders in lower classifications to take their greater impairment into account. Factoring percentages are based on average race times by riders in each classification.[2]

At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, factored races included the mixed tricycle time trial, Women's C1–3 road time trial,[3] Women's H1–2 road time trial and track C1–3 and C4–5 events.

Events

Track cycling, Men

1984, 1988, 1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
2012

Track cycling, Women

1996
2000
2004
2008
2012

Road cycling


See also

References

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  1. ↑ Cycling, Canadian Paralympic Committee
  2. ↑ "Paralympics: Cyclist wins GB's first medal". Channel 4. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  3. ↑ "Cycling - Road". Australian Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
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