2017 World Para Athletics Championships Explained

2017 World Para Athletics Championships
Size:	175
Host City:	London, England United Kingdom
Dates:	14–23 July 2017
Nations:	92
Athletes:	1074
Events:	213
Stadium:	London Stadium
Previous:	2015 Doha

The 2017 World Para Athletics Championships were a Paralympic track and field meet organized by World Para Athletics, a subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee. It was held at London Stadium in London from 14 to 23 July 2017. It was the 8th edition of the event, the first to be held after being renamed from IPC Athletics World Championship, and featured 213 medal events.

They preceded the 2017 IAAF World Championships also held in London, marking the first time that a single city hosted both the IAAF and IPC athletics championships in the same year; London previously hosted the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.^[1] ^[2]

Events

Classification

All athletes are classified according to their impairment and compete against athletes with similar impairments. Each classification consists of a three character code, starting with a letter and followed by a two-digit number. The letter specifies the event type: T for track and jumping events, and F for throwing events. The first digit of the number specifies the type of impairment and the second digit the severity of the impairment; the lower the second number, the more impaired.

T/F11–13 are for athletes with visual impairments. Athletes in class 11 and some athletes in class 12 compete with a sighted guide.
T/F20 is for athletes with intellectual impairments.
T/F31–38 are for athletes with coordination impairments (e.g. cerebral palsy). Athletes in classes 31–34 compete sitting or in wheelchairs, while athletes in classes 35–38 compete standing
T/F40–41 are for athletes of short stature.
T/F42–47 are for athletes with limb impairments (e.g. amputations).
T/F51–58 are for athletes with impaired muscle power or range of motion (e.g. paraplegia). Athletes in these classes compete seated or in wheelchairs.

Several events are open to athletes with lower classifications, for example T47 events are open to athletes classified T45, T46 and T47. However, as with the 2015 championships and 2016 Summer Paralympics, no weighting will be given to a lower classified athletes in these events.

Participating nations

Below is the list of 1,074 athletes 92 countries who have agreed to participate in the Championships and the requested number of athlete places for each. Russia was found guilty of state-sponsored doping by the IPC in August 2016 and has been suspended from participating.^[3]

(19)
(4)
(16)
(37)
(5)
(2)
(8)
(5)
(1)
(25)
(9)
(24)
(2)
(5)
(49)
Chinese Taipei (3)
(9)
(2)
(13)
(6)
(2)
(22)
(7)
(10)
(7)
(1)
(7)
(23)
(2)
(23)
(3)
(50) (hosts)
(27)
(5)
(7)
(1)
Independent Paralympic Athletes (2)
(30)
(10)
(10)
(20)
(12)
(9)
(50)
(3)
(4)
(19)
(6)
(12)
(5)
(4)
(10)
(1)
(6)
(2)
(6)
(21)
(2)
(3)
(14)
(5)
(11)
(6)
(3)
(3)
(2)
(5)
(50)
(18)
(6)
(5)
(3)
(1)
(6)
(3)
(5)
(2)
(21)
(30)
(3)
(12)
(8)
(15)
(4)
(16)
(27)
(1)
(27)
(16)
(50)
(7)
(1)

Schedule

All dates are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Date →		14 Fri	15 Sat	16 Sun	17 Mon	18 Tue	19 Wed	20 Thu	21 Fri	22 Sat	23 Sun
	Men Details	T54	T11 T12 T33 T34 T47	T13 T44	T42			T37	T38 T51	T36 T52	T35 T53
	Women Details	T34		T42	T13 T44	T11 T47	T12 T35	T36		T37 T38	T53 T54
	Men Details		T42	T53	T36	T13 T37 T38 T54	T35		T11 T12 T34	T43 T44 T47
	Women Details		T37 T38 T47 T53 T54	T13 T35	T11	T36					T44
	Men Details			T44	T20 T34 T43 T44 T51	T11 T12 T52 T53	T47	T54	T13 T36	T38	T37
	Women Details				T54	T20	T53	T11 T34 T37	T38		T47
	Men Details			T38	~~T54~~			T34 T53	T54	T13 T20	T36
	Women Details				T34		T54			T11	T20 T53
	Men Details		T46	T20 T52 T54		T13		T11	T37 T38		T47
	Women Details	T13		T11 T20 T54
	Men Details		T11	T13							T20 T54
	Women Details									T54
	Men Details										T11-13 T42-47
	Men Details						T53/54
	Women Details						T53/54
	Men Details			T47		T13				T42 T44
	Men Details		T38	T11 T12 T20	T44	T36 T42	T47		T37	T13
	Women Details		T44		T20 T38		T37	T11	T12		T42 T47
	Men Details				T47	T20
	Men Details	F38 F57	F20	F33 F34 F35	F36	F46		F40 F41 F55	F53	F12 F42	F32 F37 F44
	Women Details		F32 F55		F34 F40	F20 F34	F41		F35 F44	F33 F36 F53	F12 F57
	Men Details		F37	F42 F44 F56	F11	F52			F34 F57	F12 F46
	Women Details		F41 F52 F57			F11 F44		F38	F12 F55
	Men Details	F46	F55		F41	F44 F57	F13 F37			F38	F34 F54
	Women Details		F46	F54	F13 F56	F11					F34
	Men Details				F51			F32
	Women Details	F32 F51

Source:^[4]

The results of the men's 800 m T54 race on Monday 17 July were nullified and the race rescheduled to Friday 21 July after three competitors crashed at the 600-metre mark.^[5]

Marketing

Mascot

The mascots for the IAAF and IPC Championships were unveiled in April 2017, and chosen through a children's design contest organized by the BBC programme Blue Peter. The mascots represent "everyday" endangered species of the UK; the World Para Athletics Championships Championships mascot is an anthropomorphic bee named Whizbee.^[6]

Broadcasting

Channel 4 served as domestic rightsholder. Sunset + Vine, who has previously produced Channel 4's Paralympics coverage, was named host broadcaster for the championships.^[7]

Medal table

Source:^[8] ^[9]

Placing table

Rank	Name (country)	Points
1		611
2		561.5
3		414
4		324.5
5		311
6		280
7		275
8		213.5
9		205
10		201
11		189
12		187
13		163
14		156
15		133
16		115.5
17		115
18		109
19		105
20		99
Total (87 Nations)		210 Events

Source:^[10]

Individual medallists

The following athletes won three or more medals, with at least two being gold:^[11]

Rank	Name (country)	Medals
1		Men's 100 m T34 Men's 200 m T34 Men's 400 m T34 Men's 800 m T34
1		Men's 100 m T53 Men's 200 m T53 Men's 400 m T53 Men's 800 m T53
1		Women's 200 m T54 Women's 400 m T54 Women's 800 m T54 Women's 1500 m T54
4		Men's 200 m T43 Men's 400 m T43 Men's 4×100 m relay T42-47 Men's 100 m T44
5		Women's 100 m T13 Women's 200 m T13 Women's 400 m T13
5		Women's 100 m T34 Women's 400 m T34 Women's 800 m T34
5		Women's shot put F55 Women's discus throw F55 Women's javelin throw F56
5		Men's 800 m T54 Men's 1500 m T54 Men's 5000 m T54
5		Men's 200 m T36 Men's 400 m T36 Men's 800 m T36
10		Men's 200 m T54 Men's 400 m T54 Men's 1500 m T54 Men's 800 m T54
11		Men's 800 m T20 Men's 1500 m T20 Men's 5000 m T20
11		Men's 200 m T37 Men's 400 m T37 Men's 100 m T37
13		Women's 100 m T53 Women's 200 m T53 Women's 400 m T53
13		Women's 400 m T53 Women's 800 m T53 Women's 100 m T53

World Records

Below is a list of all world records broken during the championships.

Event	Round	Name	Nation	Time/Distance	Date
Men's Shot Put F38	Final	Cameron Crombie	Australia	15.95 m	14 July
Women's 100m T34	Final	Hannah Cockroft	Great Britain	17.18	14 July
Men's Shot Put F20	Final	Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli	Malaysia	17.29 m	15 July
Women's Discus Throw F52	Final	Cassie Mitchell	United States	13.23 m	15 July
Women's Javelin Throw F46	Final	Hollie Arnold	Great Britain	43.02 m	15 July
Men's 100m T47	Final	Petrucio Ferreira dos Santos	Brazil	10.53	15 July
Women's 200m T38	Final	Sophie Hahn	Great Britain	26.11	15 July
Women's 200m T53	Final	Samantha Kinghorn	Great Britain	28.61	15 July
Men's 200m T36	Qualifying Heat	James Turner	Australia	24.15	16 July
Men's 5000m T13	Final	Youssef Benibrahim	Morocco	14:20.69	16 July
Men's Club Throw F51	Final	Željko Dimitrijević	Serbia	31.99 m	16 July
Women's 100m T44	Qualifying Heat	Sophie Kamlish	Great Britain	12.90	17 July
Women's Javelin Throw F56	Final	Diāna Dadzīte	Latvia	27.07 m	17 July
Men's 200m T36	Final	James Turner	Australia	24.09	17 July
Men's Javelin Throw F40	Final	Ahmed Naas	Iraq	38.90	17 July
Men's Long Jump T43	Final	Ioannis Sevdikalis	Greece	6,21	17 July^[12]
Men's Discus Throw F52	Final	Andre Rocha	Brazil	23.80 m	18 July
Men's Triple Jump T20	Final	Dmytro Prudnikov	Ukraine	15.50 m	18 July
Men's Javelin Throw F43	Final	Akeem Stewart	Trinidad and Tobago	57.61 m	18 July
Men's High Jump T13	Final	Isaac Jean-Paul	United States	2.17 m	18 July
Women's 400m T20	Final	Breanna Clark	United States	56.33	18 July
Women's 100m T35	Final	Isis Holt	Australia	13.43	19 July
Men's Javelin Throw F13	Final	Aleksandr Svechnikov	Uzbekistan	71.01 m	19 July
Men's Shot Put F55	Final	Ruzhdi Ruzhdi	Bulgaria	12.47 m	20 July
Women's 400m T37	Final	Georgina Hermitage	Great Britain	1:00.29	20 July
Men's Shot Put F41	Final	Niko Kappel	Germany	13.81 m	20 July
Women's 100m T36	Final	Shi Yiting	China	13.68	20 July
Men's 400m T13	Final	Mohamed Amguoun	Morocco	46.92	21 July
Men's Javelin Throw F38	Final	Jayden Sawyer	Australia	52.96 m	22 July
Men's 200m T47	Final	Petrucio Ferreira dos Santos	Brazil	21.21	22 July
Women's 100m T38	Final	Sophie Hahn	Great Britain	12.44	22 July
Men's Shot Put F42	Final	Aled Davies	Great Britain	17.52 m	22 July
Men's Shot Put F43	Final	Akeem Stewart	Trinidad and Tobago	19.08 m	23 July
Men's Shot Put F32	Final	Lahouari Bahlaz	Algeria	11.08 m	23 July

Naas set a world record competing in the F41 men's javelin, though his throw left him in fifth place overall.^[13]

External links

Notes and References

News: Olympic Stadium set to host 2017 World Paralympic Championships. Simon. Hart. 18 October 2012. The Daily Telegraph. London.
News: London named host city for 2017 Paralympic World Championships. 19 December 2012. 19 December 2012. BBC Sport.
News: Ben . Rumsby . 22 May 2017 . Russia will have no presence at World Para Athletics Championships and could face Winter Paralympics ban . The Telegraph . 11 July 2017.
Web site: Event Timetable . London 2017 World Para Athletics Championships . 8 July 2017.
Web site: London 2017: Men's 800m T54 to be rerun following crash.
News: 'Hero' and 'Whizbee' are named as World Championships 2017 mascots. 2017-04-19. BBC Sport. 2017-07-13. en-GB.
Web site: IPC appoints Sunset+Vine as host broadcaster for World Para Athletics Championships. IPC. en. 2017-07-23.
Web site: London 2017 - medal count. www.paralympic.org. 23 July 2017.
Web site: Medal Standings. 2017 World Para Athletics Championships. 19 March 2023.
Web site: Placing Table. 2017 World Para Athletics Championships. 19 March 2023.
Web site: London 2017 - multi-medallists. www.paralympic.org. 21 July 2017.
Web site: London 2017 - Results and Schedule. 2021-09-05. International Paralympic Committee. en.
Web site: Results - Men's Javelin Throw F41 Final. 23 July 2017. 17 July 2017. IPC.