Rwanda at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Rwanda at the Paralympic Games

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Summer Games

Rwanda is scheduled to compete at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.

Funding and support

The Rwanda Paralympic Committee was an Agitos Grant Award recipient, with the funding going towards athlete pathway development for Rio and Tokyo.[1][2] The funding benefited 900 athletes around the country, while it also went to training coaches, classifiers and referees in Rwanda.[2]

The Rwanda NPC has a goal of sending its largest ever Paralympic delegation to Rio.[2]

Disability classifications

Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.[3][4] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.[5]

Sitting volleyball

Rwanda women's national sitting volleyball team qualified for the 2016 Games after winning the African Championships.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Grant Support Programme to fund 28 para-sport projects in 2014". Chinese Olympic Committee. 24 July 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "Rwanda aims to send its largest ever team to Rio 2016 Paralympics". The New Times Rwanda. 20 April 2015. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Paralympics categories explained". ABC. 3 September 2008. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Making sense of the categories". BBC Sport. 6 October 2000. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "A-Z of Paralympic classification". BBC Sport. 28 August 2008. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  6. ↑ "Who is Rio bound for Sitting Volleyball?". World Para Volleyball. 17 August 2015. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
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