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UCI Para cycling Track World Championships

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The UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships are the world championships for track cycling where athletes with a physical disability compete, organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).

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The Championships were earlier administered by the International Paralympic Committee. The UCI and the IPC organized the 2006 IPC Cycling World Championships. The first UCI Para-cycling World Championships took place in 2007.

The UCI awards a gold medal and a rainbow jersey to the winner and silver and bronze medals to the second and third.

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Classification

The classification system was reclassified in 2010/2011, and first used for the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships.

Sport class
  • Cycling
  • C1 - locomotor disability: Neurological, or amputation
  • C2 - locomotor disability: Neurological, decrease in muscle strength, or amputation
  • C3 - locomotor disability: Neurological, or amputation
  • C4 - locomotor disability: Neurological, or amputation
  • C5 - locomotor disability: Neurological, or amputation
  • Tandem
  • Tandem B - visual impairment
  • Tricycle
  • Tricycle T1
  • Tricycle T2
  • Handbike
  • Handbike H1
  • Handbike H2
  • Handbike H3
  • Handbike H4
  • Handbike H5

    • History

    UCI classification was earlier divided into these disability categories: locomotor, cerebral palsy, visually impaired, handcycling. Each category have separate classifications.

  • Locomotor disability (LC)
  • LC 1 -
  • LC 2 -
  • LC 3 -
  • LC 4 -
  • Cerebral palsy (CP)
  • CP 4 -
  • CP 3 -
  • CP 2 -
  • CP 1 - Race on tricycles.
  • Visual impairment (B/VI) - Use a tandem bicycle. A team, one athlete with a visual impairment and one sighted teammate (a pilot).
  • B1 - from a total lack of sight, to limited light perception with the inability to recognise shapes
  • B2 - more sight than B1, to a visual acuity of 2/60 and/or a field of vision of less than 5 degrees.
  • B3 - more sight than B2, up to a visual acuity of 6/60 and/or a field of vision of less than 20 degrees.
  • Handcycling (HC)
  • A -
  • B -
  • C -

    • References

    UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships Wikipedia
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