Classification
IPC Alpine Skiing Classification Master List
Please find below the IPC Alpine Skiing Classification Master List.
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IPC Alpine Skiing Classification Master List v1.3 (Posted 12 February 2010)
IPC Alpine Skiing Classification Handbook
Please find below the IPC Alpine Skiing Classification Handbook.
- IPC Alpine Skiing Classification Handbook (Updated 22 December 2009)
IPC Alpine Skiing Classification Statement (6 March 2010)
IPCAS Classification Statement LW5/7
IPC Alpine Skiing Consent and Protest Form
Please find below the IPC Alpine Skiing Consent Form.
- IPC Alpine Skiing Consent Form (Posted 11 December 2009)
Please find below the IPC Alpine Skiing Protest Form.
- IPC Alpine Skiing Protest Form (Posted 11 December 2009)
IPC Alpine Skiing Classification Overview
There are thirteen sport classes for athletes with a physical disability (seven for standing and three for sitting) and three for athletes with visual impairment. When different classes are combined in competition due to an insufficient number of athletes in a class, a formula is used to "factor" athletes' times according to their class.
Visually impaired
- B1 - Totally blind participants with vision up to light perception / hand movement
- B2 - visual acuity of 2/60 and / or visual field of less than 5 degrees
- B3 - visual acuity above 2/60 to 6/60 and / or visual field of more than 5 degrees and less than 20 degrees
Standing
- LW1 double above-knee amputees or similar
- LW2 above knee amputee using outriggers and one ski
- LW3 double below-knee amputees/ CP5, CP6
- LW4 skiers with below knee amputation using prosthesis, two skis and poles
- LW5/7 skiers with both hands / arms amputated unable to use poles (LW5/7-1, LW5/7-2, LW 5/7-3)
- LW6/8 skiers with one hand / arm amputated using one pole (LW6/8 -1, LW6/8 -2)
- LW9 disability of one arm and one leg (Amputation, CP, Hemiplegic), (LW9/1, LW9/2)
Sitting
- LW10 mono skiers (high level of spinal cord injury), (LW10/1, LW10/2)
- LW11 mono skiers (thoracic spinal cord injury)
- LW12 mono skiers (paraplegia or double AK Amputees), (LW12/1, LW 12/2)
