Sports

The Paralympic Games competition schedule includes 19 sports. Fifteen of them are shared with the Olympic Games, while the other four are exclusively Paralympic. The four “unique” sports that are played at the Paralympic Games are: Boccia, Goalball, Powerlifting and Wheelchair Rugby.

World Paralympic records are comparable with those of Olympic athletes (for example, in the Men’s 100m), or even exceed able-bodied world records (which is the case with Powerlifting).
Whereas some sports are open to all or most disability groups, in other sports athletes from only one disability group can participate.

Discover and find out more about the Paralympic sports:

	Archery		Athletics
	Boccia		Cycling
	Equestrian		Football 5-a-side
	Football 7-a-side		Goalball
	Judo		Powerlifting
	Sailing		Shooting
	Swimming		Table Tennis
	Volleyball (Sitting)		Wheelchair Basketball
	Wheelchair Fencing		Wheelchair Rugby
	Wheelchair Tennis

Classification
Volodymyr Kabanov of Ukraine (right) and Pavel Sizov (Russia) in the Men's Football 7-a-side Gold Medal match during the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games. © Jamie Squire/ALLSPORT Athletes with a different kind and level of disability are competing at the Paralympic Games. In order to compete on equal terms, athletes are classified into different classes. Specialised medical and technical personnel, called classifiers, perform classification assessment.

Athletes
Israeli Paralympic Team during training for the ATHENS 2004 Paralympic Games © Getty Images In collaboration with the National Paralympic Committees of all countries, ATHENS 2004 gathered biographical information regarding some top athletes.
The biographies include general data as well as how many Games the athletes have participated in and their results.

bullet 2004 Sport Events
bullet PEQ Manual - Paralympic Sports Entry Forms
bullet Training Guide

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