In Athletics, athletes from all of the disability categories represented in the IPC compete:

• Classes 11, 12 and 13 cover the different levels of visual impairment.
• Class 20 covers athletes with an intellectually disability
• Classes 32-38 cover athletes with different levels of cerebral palsy - both wheelchair (32 - 34) and ambulant (35 - 38).
• Classes 40-46 cover ambulant athletes with different levels of amputations and other disabilities, including les Autres (eg. dwarfism).
• Classes 51-58 cover wheelchair athletes with different levels of spinal cord injuries and amputations.

Complete Classification Rules

• IPC Athletics Classification Handbook 2006

If you need more information on the IPC Athletics Rules, please go to the Rules section.

IPC Athletics Classification Protests

Please refer to the current edition of the IPC Athletics Rules for detailed information and timelines.

• Classification Protest Form (PDF)
• Classification Protest Form (WORD)

Classification Opportunities (including Classification Training and Education)

Europe

• British Open Athletics Championships - June 2008

Beijing 2008 Classification Master List

The IPC have published the Beijing 2008 Classification Master List and invite the IPC Membership to verify the classification infomation. Please refer to the link below to view the IPC website and Athletics Master List.

• Beijing 2008 Classification Master List - Athletics

Beijing 2008 Classification Master List - Change Management Process

IPC Athletics ask all NPC's to review the Beijing 2008 Classification Master List and identify corrections or missing information on the official form below. All completed forms relating to a change in sport class or sport class status must be accompanied by a copy of official classification paperwork. 

Please submit the completed forms to helen.murphy@paralympic.org

• Classification Master List Change Management Form

IPC Athletics Classification System

Many of the IPC Membership are aware in 2003 IPC Athletics initiated a research program to consider how the sports classification system could be enhanced by the application of a more scientific and objectively based approach.  Such enhancements would be consistent with the IPC Classification Code.

You will find below two documents prepared by the principle researcher, Dr. Sean Tweedy.  The first is the IPC Athletics Classification Manual for Physical Impairments, which presents the rationale for and proposes a new approach to classification in IPC Athletics.  The second is a proposed Model of Implementation. 

IPC Athletics now seeks feedback from the IPC membership on both of these documents.  Once this is received the IPC Athletics Sports Technical Committee will review it and a final model and system of implementation will be developed and presented to the IPC Governing Board for consideration.

Feedback should be submitted in writing and on NPC/ IOSD letterhead and received at IPC Headquarters by no later than Thursday 28 February 2008 (by standard mail or email helen.murphy@paralympic.org )
Any questions in relation to this process should be directed to IPC Athletics Sports Manager, Helen Murphy via email.

IPC Athletics look forward to your comments.

• Classification Manual for Physical Impairments
• Model of Implementation