The 2011
IPC Athletics World Championships
The World Para Athletics Championships, known as the IPC Athletics World Championships prior to 2017, are a biennial Paralympic athletics event organized by World Para Athletics, a subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). It ...
was held in
Christchurch
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,
New Zealand
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from January 21 to 30, 2011. Athletes with a
disability
Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given society. Disabilities may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, ...
competed, and the Championships was a qualifying event for the
London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Ove
1000 athletescompeted, including
Oscar Pistorius, the ''Blade Runner'', who competed in class T44 at the
100m,
4 × 100 m relay
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Four is the smallest c ...
,
200m, and
400m events.
A warm-up meet, with free entry for the audience, was held on Friday January 14.
Estimates placed the total visitor spend in the city at around $12 million.
Venue
The championship was staged in the 20,000-seat
Queen Elizabeth II Park
Queen Elizabeth II Park was a multi-use stadium in Christchurch, New Zealand, located in a large park of the same name. The stadium had a capacity of 25,000 people and was built in 1973 to host the 1974 British Commonwealth Games, with a tempora ...
stadium
that was built in 1973 for the
1974 British Commonwealth Games. Three weeks after the championship closed, the venue was damaged beyond repair in the 22 February
2011 Christchurch earthquake and has since been demolished.
Coverage
At least 120 journalists from 13 countries reported on the Championships. The countries included Brazil, Egypt, Finland, Switzerland, Algeria, Australia, Colombia and the United Kingdom.
The internet-TV channe
ParalympicSport.TV owned by the
International Paralympic Committee
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(IPC), in conjunction with
Sky Television and
Kordia
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, broadcast daily live coverage of the Championships. ParalympicSport.TV also added clips to thei
YouTube channel
Events
Opening ceremony
The opening ceremony was held at
Cathedral Square on Friday January 21 as a free event. Over 1000 athletes paraded through the streets of Christchurch. At Cathedral Square, the athletes were greeted by a
Pōwhiri
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, a
Māori
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Relating to the Māori people
* Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group
* Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand
* Māori culture
* Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the C ...
welcoming ceremony. The New Zealand flag was raised and the national anthem performed. The Championships were Officially opened by the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Rt Hon.
John Key
Sir John Phillip Key (born 9 August 1961) is a New Zealand retired politician who served as the 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016 and as Leader of the New Zealand National Party from 2006 to 2016. After resigning from bo ...
.
Classification
*F = field athletes
*T = track athletes
*P = pentathlon
*11–13 – visually impaired, 11 and 12 compete with a
sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.
Sports Paralympic Games
At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.
Rules are according to the Internationa ...
*20 – intellectual disability
*31–38 –
cerebral palsy
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*41–46 –
amputation, les autre
*51–58 – wheelchair athletes
Where there are more than one classification in one event, (for example discus throw F54/55/56), a percentage system is used to determine who's the winner.
Schedule
[2012 IPC Athletics World Championships – Preliminary Competition Schedule – Version 1.3]
IPC Athletics, December 17, 2010
The 1st and 2nd place
athletesin any individual medal event on the
London 2012 Paralympic Games Programme, qualify the
NPC for one (1) qualification slot (per placing) for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Medalists
The
sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.
Sports Paralympic Games
At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.
Rules are according to the Internationa ...
s who run together with athletes with a
visual impairment
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at the Championship, did not receive a medal. This will change for the
2012 Summer Paralympics in
London
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. For the first time, also guides at a major international athletics event will receive medals. In Paralympic winter sports, such as
alpine skiing,
biathlon
The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not time ...
and
cross-country skiing the guides receive medals, for example at the
2010 Winter Paralympics. In Paralympic
tandem cycling
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events, the pilots receive medals, for example at the
2008 Summer Paralympics.
Medal table
Changes in medal standings
Highlights
Records
At the competition, 57
world records
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, 173
Championship records, and a number of area records and national records were broken.
[World record in marathon to finish IPC Athletics]
International Paralympic Committee
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, 31 January 2011[RECORDS SET (As of 30 JAN 2011)]
Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships
Day 0 (21st)
Opening ceremony.
Day 1 (22nd)
There were seven world records: Brazil's
Terezinha Guilhermina
Terezinha Guilhermina (born 3 October 1978) is a Paralympic athlete from Brazil competing mainly in category T11 sprint events, T11 being the category for totally blind athletes. She has congenital retinitis pigmentosa, as do five of her twelve ...
in the women's 200m T11 with a time of 24.74, China's
Yuxi Ma
Ma Yuxi (; born March 21, 1979) is a Paralympic Track and field, athlete from China competing mainly in category T37 sprint events.
He competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. There he won a silver medal in the m ...
(F37) in the
men's long jump F37/38 with a length of 6.07m, France's
Arnaud Assoumani
Arnaud Assoumani (born 4 September 1985) is a T46 French athlete.
He represented France in the F46 long jump at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, Chi ...
in the
men's long jump F46 twice, first with a length of 7.36m, then with 7.58m, Algeria's
Karim Bettina
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Given name Karim
* Karim Ab ...
(F32) in the men's shot put F32/33 final with a length of 10.89m and in the same event Algeria's
Kamel Kardjena
Kamel Kardjena (born May 26, 1981) is a Paralympic athlete from Algeria. He has cerebral palsy and competes in seated throwing events in the F33 classification.
He competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China, where he ...
(F33) with 12.24m, France's
Thierry Cibone
Thierry Cibone (born 8 August 1973) is a Paralympic athlete competing in throwing events. He lives in New Caledonia and represents France in international competition. He has cerebral palsy.https://www.bleushandisport.com/bleus/cibone-thierry/
...
in the men's shot put F34 with a length of 11.53m, China's
Liangmin Zhang
Zhang Liangmin (; born October 12, 1985) is a blind Paralympian Track and field, athlete from China competing mainly in throwing events.
She competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. There she won a silve ...
(classification F11) with a world record throw in the women's discus throw F12 (included both F11 and F12) with 40.42, which gave her a silver medal, while Croatia's
Marija Iveković (F12) took the gold medal.
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Eight World records: Mexico's
Angeles Ortiz Hernandes
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(F58) in the women's shot put F57/58 final with the length of 11.21m, Poland's
Pawel Piotrowski
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(F36) in the men's shot put F35/36 with a throw of 13.77m, Australia's Kelly Cartwright set a world record and took Australia's first gold medal in the women's long jump F42 with a length of 4.19m, China's
Mingjie Gao
Gao Mingjie (; born November 23, 1980, in Shangri-La City) is a Paralympian Track and field, athlete from China competing mainly in category F42–44 javelin throw events.
Gao competed in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Gree ...
in the
men's javelin T44 final with 59.82m, Poland's
Tomasz Blatkiewicz
Tomasz Blatiewicz is a Paralympian athlete from Poland competing mainly in category F37 throws events.
Tomasz won two golds in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece in the F37 discus and the F37 shot put. On returning four years ...
(F37) in the men's discus F37/38 with a length of 53.00m after Ukraine's
Mykola Zhabnyak
Mykola Zhabnyak (30 September 1979) is a Paralympian athlete from Ukraine competing mainly in category F37/38 throwing events.
Career
Mykola competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing
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(F37) had broken it first with 52.48m, Egypt's
Mostafa Fathalla Mohammed
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, Muṣṭafā) is one of the names of Prophet Muhammad, and the name means "chosen, selected, appointed, preferred", used as an Arabic given name and surname. Mustafa is a common name in the Muslim world.
Given name Mou ...
in the
men's 100m T37 heat with a time of 11.64 sec, and two records in the women's shot put F32/33/34: Germany's
Brigit Kober
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(classification F34) with a length of 9.30m, and Greece's
Maria Stamatoula
Maria Stamatoula (born 15 August 1972) is a Paralympian athlete from Greece competing mainly in F32 shot put and club throw events.
She competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. There she won a bronze medal in the w ...
(F32) with 6.60m.
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Brazil's
Yohansson Nascimento
Yohansson Nascimento (born 25 September 1987) is an athlete and Paralympian from Brazil competing mainly in T45/46 sprint events. He was born without both his hands, and is classified T46. He started athletics in 2005.
Personal history
Nascieme ...
(T45) set a world record for classification T45 in the
men's 200m race T46 (included T45 and T46 classified athletes) with a time of 22.35 and won the silver medal while Antonis Aresti (T46) of Cyprus did not set a record for T46, but won the gold medal with a time of 22.25.
Other world records: Egypt's
Mostafa Fathalla Mohamed
Mostafa Fathalla Mohamed is an Egyptian Paralympian, Paralympic track and field athlete who competes in T37 (classification), T37 sprint events.
Career
Mostafa claimed gold medal in the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships – Men's 100 me ...
in the
men's 100m T37 final with a time of 11.61, the Ukraine's team (
Viktoriya Kravchenko
Viktoriya Kravchenko ( uk, Вікторія Кравченко) (born 18 January 1979) is a Paralympian athlete from Ukraine competing mainly in category T37 sprint events.
She competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China
...
,
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People
* Maryna Antsybor (born 1987), Ukrainian cross country skier
* Maryna Arzamasava (born 1987), Belarusian middle-distance runner
* Maryna Bazhanova (born 1962), Ukrainian former handball player
* Maryna Dubrova (born 19 ...
,
Oksana Krechunyak
Oksana Krechunyak ( uk, Оксана Кречуняк; born 25 April 1981) is a Paralympian athlete from Ukraine competing mainly in category T37 sprint events.
Oksana has twice competed in the Paralympics, in 2004 and 2008
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,
Inna Dyachenko
Inna Stryzhak (Ukrainian: Інна Стрижак), in some instances referred to as Inna Stryzhak-Dyachenko (née Dyachenko; born 11 June 1985) is a Paralympian Track and field, athlete from Ukraine competing mainly in T38 (classification), cate ...
) in the women's 4 × 100 m relay F35-38 with a time of 55.07, Brazil's
Terezinha Guilhermina
Terezinha Guilhermina (born 3 October 1978) is a Paralympic athlete from Brazil competing mainly in category T11 sprint events, T11 being the category for totally blind athletes. She has congenital retinitis pigmentosa, as do five of her twelve ...
in the
women's 100m T11 heats with a time of 12.13, Russia's
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(F54) in the
men's javelin throw F54/55/56 with a length of 29.44m, Serbia's
Tanja Dragic
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Given name
*Tanja Andrejeva (born 1978), Macedonian handball player
* Tanja Bogosavljevi ...
(F12) in the
women's javelin throw F13 with a length of 36.74m, Latvia's
Aigars Apinis
Aigars Apinis (born 9 June 1973, in Aizkraukle) is a Latvian athlete. He participates in F52 class which means he has limited finger movement and no trunk or leg function.
He started to practice in 1998, but already at the 2000 Summer Paraly ...
(F52) in the men's shot put F52/53 with a length of 10.03m, Russia's
Alexey Ashapatov
Alexey Vitalyevich Ashapatov (russian: Алексей Витальевич Ашапатов; born 30 October 1973) is a Russian para-athletics, para-athlete competing mainly in category F57-58 throwing events.
He competed in the 2008 Summer Pa ...
(F58) in the men's shot put F57/58 with the length of 16.37m,
Paschalis Stathelakos
Paschalis Stathelakos, (Greek: Πασχάλης Σταθελάκος) (born 24 February 1991) is a Paralympian Track and field, athlete from Greece competing mainly in category F40 shot put events.
He competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in B ...
of Greece, in the
men's discus throw F40 with the length 40.92, and Algeria's
Lahouari Bahlaz
Lahouari Bahlaz (born 12 March 1979) is an Algerian track and field athlete who competes in disability athletics in the T32 (classification), F32 category. Bahlaz specializes in both the discus throw, discus and club throw, winning two bronze med ...
(F32) in the
men's discus throw F32/33/34 with a length of 20.30m.
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Day 4 (25th)
Brazil's
Odair Santos
Odair Santos (born 17 May 1981) is a visually impaired Paralympian Track and field, athlete from Brazil competing mainly in T11 (classification), T11 classification middle and long-distance events. A veteran of four Paralympics, Santos has won ni ...
set a world record in the
men's 1500m T11 with 4:04.70,
Terezinha Guilhermina
Terezinha Guilhermina (born 3 October 1978) is a Paralympic athlete from Brazil competing mainly in category T11 sprint events, T11 being the category for totally blind athletes. She has congenital retinitis pigmentosa, as do five of her twelve ...
of Brazil set a world record in the women's 100m T11 with a time of 12.13sec. Other world records:
Markus Rehm
Markus Rehm (born 22 August 1988) is a German Paralympic athlete. He began in sports at age 20 and became a long jump F44 world champion in 2011. His club is TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen and he is a medical specialist. Rehm is nicknamed "The Blade Ju ...
of Germany in the
men's long jump F44 with a jump of 7.09m, Algeria's
Lahouari Bahlaz
Lahouari Bahlaz (born 12 March 1979) is an Algerian track and field athlete who competes in disability athletics in the T32 (classification), F32 category. Bahlaz specializes in both the discus throw, discus and club throw, winning two bronze med ...
in the
men's club throw F31/32/51 with a length of 36.73m, and Algeria's
Hocine Gherzouli in the men's shot put F40 with the length 12.21m.
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In the
100m T44 men final, America's
Jerome Singleton
Jerome Singleton (born July 7, 1986) is a Paralympic athlete from the United States competing mainly in category T44 (single below knee amputation) sprint events. Because he had no fibula in his right calf, his leg was amputated below the knee wh ...
and South Africa's
Oscar Pistorius battled it out with Singleton securing gold, just 0.002 ahead of Pistorius. Both Singleton and Pistorius were timed in 11.34.
[Singleton pips Pistorius in epic 100m at IPC Athletics World Champs]
International Paralympic Committee
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, 26 January 2011
In the
1500m T37 men, Ireland's
Michael McKillop
Michael Gerard McKillop (born 27 January 1990 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland) is an Irish middle distance runner. He competes in the T37 disability sport classification, as he has a mild form of cerebral palsy.
He won the 800m title at th ...
won and set a world record with a time of 4:14.81, but did not receive a medal, because only two athletes competed, and there must be a minimum of three competitors.
There were five more world records: Great Britain's
Daniel Greaves in the
men's discus throw F44 final with a throw of 58.98m, Algeria's
Sofiane Hamdi
Sofiane Hamdi (born 22 August 1989) is a Paralympic athlete from Algeria competing mainly in category T37 sprint events.
He competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing
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in the
men's 200m T37 final with a time of 23.64secs, Brazil's
Yohansson Nascimento
Yohansson Nascimento (born 25 September 1987) is an athlete and Paralympian from Brazil competing mainly in T45/46 sprint events. He was born without both his hands, and is classified T46. He started athletics in 2005.
Personal history
Nascieme ...
in the
men's 100m T46 final with a time of 11.01secs, Russia's
Alexey Ashapatov
Alexey Vitalyevich Ashapatov (russian: Алексей Витальевич Ашапатов; born 30 October 1973) is a Russian para-athletics, para-athlete competing mainly in category F57-58 throwing events.
He competed in the 2008 Summer Pa ...
in the
men's discus throw F57/58 final with a throw of 57.64m, and Cuba's
Omara Durand
Omara Durand Elías (born 26 November 1991) is a visually impaired Cuban sprinter, who competes in T12 and T13 events. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, she won gold medals in the 100 m – T13 and 400 m – T13 competitions. At the 2016 ...
in the
women's 200m T13 final with a time of 24.24secs.
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There were seven world records: Thierry Cibone
Thierry Cibone (born 8 August 1973) is a Paralympic athlete competing in throwing events. He lives in New Caledonia and represents France in international competition. He has cerebral palsy.https://www.bleushandisport.com/bleus/cibone-thierry/
...
of France, in the men's F33/34 javelin throw with a throw of 35.91m, Egypt's Ia Abdelwareth
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* "Iä", a fictional word in the works of H. P. Lovecraft
* International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), which also goes by ...
in the men's F37/38 shot put with a throw of 15.58m, Latvia's Aigars Apinis
Aigars Apinis (born 9 June 1973, in Aizkraukle) is a Latvian athlete. He participates in F52 class which means he has limited finger movement and no trunk or leg function.
He started to practice in 1998, but already at the 2000 Summer Paraly ...
in the men's F51/52/53 discus throw with a throw of 20.88m, China's team ( Ting Zhang, Lisha Huang
Huang Lisha (; born September 10, 1988) is a Paralympian athlete from China competing mainly in category T53 wheelchair sprint events.
She competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. There she won a gold medal in the women's 100 ...
, Wenjun Liu
Liu Wenjun (born 5 May 1995) is a Paralympian athlete from China competing mainly in category T54 wheelchair sprint and middle-distance events.
Wenjun competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. There she won a gold medal in th ...
, Hongzhuan Zhou
Zhou Hongzhuan (; born December 12, 1988) is a Paralympian Track and field, athlete from China competing mainly in category T53 sprint and mid-distance events.
She competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China, ...
) in the women's 4X400m relay T53/54 with a time of 3:36.11, Tunisia's Hania Aidi
Hania Aidi ( ar, هنية العايدي; born 10 December 1977) is a Paralympian Track and field, athlete from Tunisia competing mainly in F54 (classification), category F54 javelin throw events. Aidi has competed at four consecutive Summer Para ...
in the women's javelin throw F54/55/56, with a throw of 17.27m, both Ukraine's Mariia Pomazan
Mariia Pomazan (Ukrainian: Марія Олександрівна Помазан; born 15 October 1988) is a Ukrainian Paralympic athlete. She competes in throwing events in the F35 classification for athletes with cerebral palsy. , she holds W ...
(F35), with a throw of 10.61m, and China's Qing Wu (F36), with a throw of 9.66m, in the women's F35/36 shot put.
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In the men's F54/55/56 discus throw, there were three world records: Bulgaria's Mustafa Yuseinov
Mustafa ( ar, مصطفى
, Muṣṭafā) is one of the names of Prophet Muhammad, and the name means "chosen, selected, appointed, preferred", used as an Arabic given name and surname. Mustafa is a common name in the Muslim world.
Given name Mou ...
(classification F55) with a throw of 39.42m, Serbia's Drazenko Mitrovic (F56) with a throw of 31.35m, and Cuba's Leonardo Diaz (F56) with a throw of 43.10m.[Three World Records in One Event at IPC Athletics World Champs]
International Paralympic Committee
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC; german: Internationales Paralympisches Komitee) is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement. The IPC organizes the Paralympic Games and fun ...
(IPC), 28 January 2011
There was also a world record in the women's F33/34/52/53 javelin: Birgit Kober
Birgit Kober (born 10 July 1971) is a German Paralympic athlete. She initially competed in F34 seated throwing events, and from 2011-2013 she became the reigning champion at European, World and Paralympic level in both shot put and javelin in he ...
of Germany with a throw of 23.54m. In the men's 800m T37, Ireland's Michael McKillop
Michael Gerard McKillop (born 27 January 1990 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland) is an Irish middle distance runner. He competes in the T37 disability sport classification, as he has a mild form of cerebral palsy.
He won the 800m title at th ...
, on his birthday, set a world record with a time of 1:58.90.
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America's Tatyana McFadden took her 4th gold at the championship (200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m T54).[Pistorius and McFadden impressive at IPC Athletics World Champs]
International Paralympic Committee
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC; german: Internationales Paralympisches Komitee) is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement. The IPC organizes the Paralympic Games and fun ...
(IPC), 29 January 2011
World records: Mariia Pomazan
Mariia Pomazan (Ukrainian: Марія Олександрівна Помазан; born 15 October 1988) is a Ukrainian Paralympic athlete. She competes in throwing events in the F35 classification for athletes with cerebral palsy. , she holds W ...
of the Ukraine, in the women's discus F35/36 with a throw of 28.73m (1073pts) and Tunisia's Mohamed Farhat Chida
Mohamed Farhat Chida ( ar, محمد فرحات شيدة; born September 11, 1982) is a Paralympic Track and field, athlete from Tunisia competing mainly in category T38 sprint events.
Biographies
Between 1990 and 1997, Mohamed competed in able b ...
in the men's 400m T38 with a time of 49.33sec.[
Iran's ]Seyed Erfan Hosseini Liravi
''Sayyid'' (, ; ar, سيد ; ; meaning 'sir', 'Lord', 'Master'; Arabic plural: ; feminine: ; ) is a surname of people descending from the Prophets in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandsons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali ...
set a world record in the men's javelin F12/13 with a throw of 61.48m, though the gold medal was won by China's Pengkai Zhu
Zhu Pengkai (; born March 21, 1987) is a Paralympian athlete from China competing mainly in category F12 javelin events.
Zhu had to pull out of the pentathlon in the 2008 Summer Paralympics
The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summe ...
with 61.90. Liravi is classified F13 and Zhu is classified F12, and the world record was for F13 classified athletes.[ (F12: may recognise the shape of a hand, ]visual acuity
Visual acuity (VA) commonly refers to the clarity of vision, but technically rates an examinee's ability to recognize small details with precision. Visual acuity is dependent on optical and neural factors, i.e. (1) the sharpness of the retinal ...
of 2/60, and/or visual field
The visual field is the "spatial array of visual sensations available to observation in introspectionist psychological experiments". Or simply, visual field can be defined as the entire area that can be seen when an eye is fixed straight at a point ...
of less than 5 degrees. F13: visual acuity ranges from 2/60 to 6/60, and/or visual field over 5 degrees and less than 20 degrees.)
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Great Britain's David Weir and Shelly Woods
Rochelle "Shelly" Woods (born 4 June 1986) is an elite British Paralympic athlete from the suburb of Layton in Blackpool, Lancashire. Woods is a T54 athlete who competes as a wheelchair racer in medium and long-distance events. She has compet ...
, on January 29, pulled out of the marathon for safety reasons, as the roads around the circuit would not be closed to traffic.
Spain's Alberto Suarez Laso
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set a world record in the men's marathon T12 with a time of 2:28:10.
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See also
* 2011 World Championships in Athletics
References
IPC Historical Results Database
International Paralympic Committee
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