UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships

The UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships are the world championships for track cycling where athletes with a physical disability compete, organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).

The Championships were earlier administered by the International Paralympic Committee.^[1][2][3] The UCI and the IPC organized the 2006 IPC Cycling World Championships. The first UCI Para-cycling World Championships took place in 2007.^[1]

The UCI awards a gold medal and a rainbow jersey to the winner and silver and bronze medals to the second and third.

Championships

Year	City	Country	Date	Velodrome	No. of Events	No. of Athletes
2007 ()	Bordeaux	France	August – August
2009 ()[4]	Manchester	United Kingdom	6 November – 8 November	Manchester Velodrome
2011 ()[5]	Montichiari	Italy	11 March – 13 March	Montichiari Velodrome
2012 ()[6]	Carson	United States	9 February – 12 February	ADT Event Center
2014 ()[7]	Aguascalientes	Mexico	10-13 April	Aguascalientes Bicentenary Velodrome
2015 ()	Apeldoorn	Netherlands	26-29 March
2016 ()	Montichiari	Italy	17 March – 203 March	Montichiari Velodrome

Classification

The classification system was reclassified in 2010/2011, and first used for the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships.^[8][9]

Sport class^[10][11]

• Cycling
  • C1 - locomotor disability: Neurological, or amputation
  • C2 - locomotor disability: Neurological, decrease in muscle strength, or amputation
  • C3 - locomotor disability: Neurological, or amputation
  • C4 - locomotor disability: Neurological, or amputation
  • C5 - locomotor disability: Neurological, or amputation
• Tandem
  • Tandem B - visual impairment
• Tricycle
  • Tricycle T1
  • Tricycle T2
• Handbike
  • Handbike H1
  • Handbike H2
  • Handbike H3
  • Handbike H4
  • Handbike H5

History

UCI classification was earlier divided into these disability categories: locomotor, cerebral palsy, visually impaired, handcycling. Each category have separate classifications.^[12][13]

• Locomotor disability (LC)
  • LC 1 -
  • LC 2 -
  • LC 3 -
  • LC 4 -

• Cerebral palsy (CP)
  • CP 4 -
  • CP 3 -
  • CP 2 -
  • CP 1 - Race on tricycles.

• Visual impairment (B/VI) - Use a tandem bicycle. A team, one athlete with a visual impairment and one sighted teammate (a pilot).^[14]
  • B1 - from a total lack of sight, to limited light perception with the inability to recognise shapes
  • B2 - more sight than B1, to a visual acuity of 2/60 and/or a field of vision of less than 5 degrees.
  • B3 - more sight than B2, up to a visual acuity of 6/60 and/or a field of vision of less than 20 degrees.

• Handcycling (HC)
  • A -
  • B -
  • C -

See also

• UCI Track Cycling World Championships
• UCI World Championships

References

1. Develop para-cycling together - Integration of Para-cycling within National Cycling Federations, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)
2. IPC Cycling to become part of UCI, cyclingnews.com, April 20, 2009
3. Model of Integration: USI Para-cycling, csd.gob.es
4. Official site of the 2009 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
5. Official site of the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
6. Official site of the 2012 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
7. Official site of the 2014 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
8. Double gold for Aussies on day one of World Championships, cyclenation.com.au, March 12, 2011
9. Double gold for Aussies on day one of World Championships, nsw.cycling.org.au, March 14, 2011
10. UCI Cycling Regulations - Part 16 Para-cycling, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)
11. , Canadian Cycling Association, 2010
12. UCI Classification Guide, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)
13. About Disability Cycling, British Cycling
14. Disciplines - Para-Cycling, Canadian Cycling Association

External links

• Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)