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 ...
at the
1994 Winter Paralympics
The 1994 Winter Paralympics ( no, Paralympiske vinterleker 1994; nn, Paralympiske vinterleikane 1994), the sixth Paralympic Winter Games, were held in Lillehammer, Norway, from 10 to 19 March 1994. These Games marked the second time the Paral ...
The competition event was:
*7.5 km: men - women
The event had separate standing, sitting, or visually impaired classifications:
*LW2 - standing: single leg amputation above the knee
*LW3 - standing: double leg amputation below the knee, mild
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, or equivalent impairment
*LW4 - standing: single leg amputation below the knee
*LW5/7 - standing: double arm amputation
*LW6/8 - standing: single arm amputation
*LW9 - standing: amputation or equivalent impairment of one arm and one leg
*LW 10 - sitting: paraplegia with no or some upper abdominal function and no functional sitting balance
*LW 11 - sitting: paraplegia with fair functional sitting balance
*B1 - visually impaired: no functional vision
*B2 - visually impaired: up to ca 3-5% functional vision
*B3 - visually impaired: under 10% functional vision
Men's events
Women's events
See also
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Biathlon at the 1994 Winter Olympics
The biathlon competition at the 1994 Winter Olympics were held at the Birkebeineren Ski Stadium. The events were held between 18 and 26 February 1994.
The sport of biathlon combines the skills of cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. Men and ...
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...