World Para Athletics Championships Explained

Last Season:	2024 World Para Athletics Championships
Formerly:	IPC Athletics World Championships (1994–2017)
Sport:	Athletics
Founded:	1994
Continent:	International (IPC)

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 features athletics events contested by athletes with physical disabilities. The first IPC Athletics World Championships were held in Berlin, Germany in 1994.^[1]

They are a Paralympic parallel to the World Athletics Championships for able-bodied athletes. Since 2011, when they switched from a quadrennial scheduling to biennial, the IPC championships have been held in the same years as the IAAF championships, although they are separate events and are not necessarily held in the same host city. In 2017, London, which previously hosted the 2012 Summer Paralympics, became the first city to host both the IAAF World Championships and World Para Athletics Championships in the same year and as connected events.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Editions

width=20		width=100	Year	width=150	Host City	width=200	Host Country	width=150	Dates	width=300	Venue	width=30	Events	width=30	Athletes	width=30	Nations	width=100	Best Nation
IPC Athletics World Championships
1	1994	Berlin		22–31 July	Berlin Olympiastadion		1154	63
2	1998	Birmingham		6–16 August	Alexander Stadium		+1000	61
3	2002	Lille		20–28 July	Stadium Nord Lille Métropole		+1000	75
4	2006	Assen		2–10 September	Sports Park Stadsbroek	203	1097	76
5	2011	Christchurch		21–30 January	Queen Elizabeth II Park	213	1060	80
6	2013	Lyon		19–28 July	Stade du Rhône	207	1073	118
7	2015			22–31 October	Suheim Bin Hamad Stadium	212	1230	96
World Para Athletics Championships
8	2017	London		14–23 July	Olympic Stadium, Stratford	210	1074	92
9	2019	Dubai		7–15 November	Dubai Club for People of Determination	172	1365	118
10	2023	Paris		8–17 July	Stade Charléty	171	1206	103
11	2024	Kobe		17–25 May	Universiade Memorial Stadium	168	1073	103

Source:^{[5] [6]}

Medals (1994-2024)

Source:^[7]

Classification

• F = field athletes
• T = track athletes
• P = pentathlon
• 11-13: visually impaired, 11 and 12 compete with a sighted guide
• 20: intellectual disability
• 31-38: cerebral palsy or other conditions that affect muscle co-ordination and control. Athletes in class 31-34 compete in a seated position; athletes in class 35-38 compete standing.
• 40-41: small athletes.
• 42-43: impaired muscular power (without prosthesis) in the legs.
• 45-47: upper limb prosthesis.
• 51-57: spinal cord injuries. All races compete in wheel chairs. Everyone throws seated.
• 61-64 : athletes who have a prosthesis affected by lower limb deficiency and leg length difference.
• 71-72 : severe coordinations disorders. Practice only Frame Running.

See also

• Athletics at the Paralympics
• World Juniors Para Athletics Championships
• European Para Athletics Championships
• Asian Para Athletics Championships
• World Athletics Championships

External links

• New Athletics World Records Set in Lille, International Paralympic Committee (IPC), 25 July 2002
• III ATHLETICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS - I.P.C 2002 - program & Results (archived, Wayback Machine)
• US Captures 11 Gold Medals in IPC World Championships, The O&P EDGE, October 2002
• 2006 IPC World Championships In Athletics - Selection Criteria, Athletics Canada
• Dr. Detlef Eckert startet bei der Leichtathletik-WM der Behinderten gleich dreimal (German), Berliner Zeitung, July 22, 1994
• Vom Rehabilitationssport zu den Paralympics (German), Sportmuseum Leipzig
• More victories for disabled athletes, Mail & Guardian Online, Aug 17 1998
• More gold for disabled athletes, Mail & Guardian Online, Aug 14 1998
• Alexander Stadium, newman.ac.uk
• Maxxyz Controlled Martin Lighting Package for IPC Athletics World Championships, livetime.nl, November 7, 2006
• IPC Athletics

See main article: world championships.

Notes and References

1. Book: Howe, David . The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement . Routledge . 2008 . 978-0-415-28886-6 . en.
2. News: Hart . Simon . 18 October 2012 . Olympic Stadium set to host 2017 World Paralympic Championships . The Daily Telegraph . London . live . 24 December 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231224164559/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/paralympic-sport/9618818/Olympic-Stadium-set-to-host-2017-World-Paralympic-Championships.html . 24 December 2023.
3. News: 19 December 2012 . London named host city for 2017 Paralympic World Championships . BBC Sport . live . 19 December 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231224164744/https://www.bbc.com/sport/disability-sport/20782283 . 24 December 2023.
4. Web site: 23 April 2019 . Kobe to host 2021 World Para Athletics Championships . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231224164838/https://www.paralympic.org/news/kobe-host-2021-world-para-athletics-championships . 24 December 2023 . 24 December 2023 . International Paralympic Committee.
5. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20210826201001/http://www.jobosport.nl/userfiles/documents/28.pdf . 1994 Results Book . 2021-08-26.
6. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20210826201316/http://www.jobosport.nl/userfiles/documents/35.pdf . 2002 Results Book . 2021-08-26.
7. Web site: Unknown.