Athletics at the 2012 Summer Paralympics T/F20

Athletics at the XIV Paralympic Games
Paralympic Athletics
Venue	Olympic Stadium The Mall
Dates	31 August – 9 September 2012
Competitors	1100 (740 men, 360 women)

Athletics at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Classification
T/F11–13: Blind and visually impaired
T/F20: Intellectual disability
T/F31–38: Cerebral palsy
F40: Les Autres
T/F42–46: Amputees
T/F51–58: Spinal cord disability
T/F20
Track
1500 m	men	women
Field
Long jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women

Athletics events at the 2012 Summer Paralympics were held in the Olympic Stadium and in The Mall in London, United Kingdom, from 31 August to 9 September 2012.^[1] A restricted number of events were held in the stadium for athletes with intellectual impairment.

Classification

For more details on this topic, see Disability sport classification.

Athletes were given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classification system allowed athletes to compete against others with a similar level of function.

The athletics classifications are:

11–13: Blind (11) and visually impaired (12, 13) athletes
20: Athletes with an intellectual disability
31–38: Athletes with cerebral palsy
40: Les Autres (others) (including people with dwarfism)
42–46: Amputees
51–58: Athletes with a spinal cord disability

The class numbers were given prefixes of "T" and "F" for track and field events, respectively.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Classification	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1500 m	T20	Peyman Nasiri Bazanjani Iran (IRI)	Daniel Pek Poland (POL)	Rafal Korc Poland (POL)
Long jump	F20	Jose Antonio Exposito Pineiro Spain (ESP)	Zoran Talic Croatia (CRO)	Lenine Cunha Portugal (POR)
Shot put	F20	Todd Hodgetts Australia (AUS)	Jeffrey Ige Sweden (SWE)	Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli Malaysia (MAS)

Women's events

Event	Classification	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1500 m	T20	Barbara Niewiedzial (Guide) Poland (POL)	Arleta Meloch (Guide) Poland (POL)	Ilona Biacsi (Guide) Hungary (HUN)
Long jump	F20	Karolina Kucharczyk Poland (POL)	Krestina Zhukova Russia (RUS)	Mikela Ristoski Croatia (CRO)
Shot put	F20	Ewa Durska Poland (POL)	Anastasiia Mysnyk Ukraine (UKR)	Svitlana Kudelya Ukraine (UKR)

References

↑ "Paralympic Athletics". London 2012 website. Retrieved 5 June 2011.

External links

International Paralympic Committee - Athletics classification regulations

Events at the 2012 Summer Paralympics (London)

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