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Wheelchair Racing

Wheelchair racing is para athletics with racing chair on track or road. Speed comes from seating position, push technique, racing gloves, line choice, classification and compliant racing chair.

LevelAdaptive FamilyPara Sports CategoryPara athletics

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Classification

Category Para athletics

Family Para Sports

Level Adaptive

Getting started

Kurzbeschreibung Timed and placing races in a racing wheelchair on track or road.

Geeignet für Suitable for athletes seeking upper-body technique, endurance and measurable times.

Cost Trying through a para-athletics group or loan chair is sensible; an everyday wheelchair is not a racing chair. Racing chair/loan, gloves, helmet by event, track time, coach, classification process and competition costs. Para-athletics club, track club, national para-sport body or athletics programme. Model as a para-athletics racing-chair discipline, not a…

First progress First push drills are immediate; efficient technique takes many repetitions.

Fitness level medium to high

Was du brauchst

racing wheelchair
racing gloves
helmet by event
track or road
coach
classification information

First steps

contact para club
test loan chair
set seating position
practise push drills
clarify classification

Para-athletics club, national para federation, track club or loan-chair programme.

Helmet/protection by event, clear track, coach supervision, chair check and progressive load.

Weitere Angaben

Tags wheelchair-racing, athletics, para-sport, para-leichtathletik, rollstuhlrennen, para-athletics

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

Complete the stated distance fastest in a compliant racing chair and valid sport class.

Teilnehmer

wheelchair racers.

Teamgröße

individual; relays by event.

Spielfeld

track or road.

Dauer

Depends on format and event.

Wertung

time/placing by class.

Gewinnbedingung

Best valid time, placing or score in the announced format.

Ausrüstung

racing chair
gloves
helmet
timing

Wichtige Regelpunkte

start/lane breach
classification breach
technical breach
impeding

Regelquellen

Federations and sources

Federations

World Para Athletics
World Para Athletics (WPA)

World Para Athletics Rules and Regulations World Para Athletics · official-rulebook · high
World Para Athletics Classification World Para Athletics · official-classification · high
Beginner's Guide to Wheelchair Racing Quantum Rehab · beginner-guide · medium
Para Athletics Handbook Athletics New Zealand · federation-handbook · medium