2017_World_Para_Athletics_Championships

2017 World Para Athletics Championships

2017 World Para Athletics Championships

Paralympic track and field event

The 2017 World Para Athletics Championships were a Paralympic track and field meet organized by World Para Athletics, a subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee. It was held at London Stadium in London from 14 to 23 July 2017. It was the 8th edition of the event, the first to be held after being renamed from IPC Athletics World Championship, and featured 213 medal events.

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They preceded the 2017 IAAF World Championships also held in London, marking the first time that a single city hosted both the IAAF and IPC athletics championships in the same year; London previously hosted the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.[1][2]

Events

A view of the stadium during the evening session of 21 July

Classification

Further information: Para-athletics classification

All athletes are classified according to their impairment and compete against athletes with similar impairments. Each classification consists of a three character code, starting with a letter and followed by a two-digit number. The letter specifies the event type: T for track and jumping events, and F for throwing events. The first digit of the number specifies the type of impairment and the second digit the severity of the impairment; the lower the second number, the more impaired.

  • T/F11–13 are for athletes with visual impairments. Athletes in class 11 and some athletes in class 12 compete with a sighted guide.
  • T/F20 is for athletes with intellectual impairments.
  • T/F31–38 are for athletes with coordination impairments (e.g. cerebral palsy). Athletes in classes 31–34 compete sitting or in wheelchairs, while athletes in classes 35–38 compete standing
  • T/F40–41 are for athletes of short stature.
  • T/F42–47 are for athletes with limb impairments (e.g. amputations).
  • T/F51–58 are for athletes with impaired muscle power or range of motion (e.g. paraplegia). Athletes in these classes compete seated or in wheelchairs.

Several events are open to athletes with lower classifications, for example T47 events are open to athletes classified T45, T46 and T47. However, as with the 2015 championships and 2016 Summer Paralympics, no weighting will be given to a lower classified athletes in these events.

Participating nations

Below is the list of 1,074 athletes 92 countries who have agreed to participate in the Championships and the requested number of athlete places for each. Russia was found guilty of state-sponsored doping by the IPC in August 2016 and has been suspended from participating.[3]

Schedule

All dates are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

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Source:[4]

The results of the men's 800 m T54 race on Monday 17 July were nullified and the race rescheduled to Friday 21 July after three competitors crashed at the 600-metre mark.[5]

Marketing

Mascot

The mascots for the IAAF and IPC Championships were unveiled in April 2017, and chosen through a children's design contest organized by the BBC programme Blue Peter. The mascots represent "everyday" endangered species of the UK; the World Para Athletics Championships Championships mascot is an anthropomorphic bee named Whizbee.[6]

Broadcasting

Channel 4 served as domestic rightsholder. Sunset + Vine, who has previously produced Channel 4's Paralympics coverage, was named host broadcaster for the championships.[7]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Great Britain)

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Source:[8][9]

Placing table

  Host nation (Great Britain)

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Individual medallists

The following athletes won three or more medals, with at least two being gold:[11]

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World Records

Below is a list of all world records broken during the championships.

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† Naas set a world record competing in the F41 men's javelin, though his throw left him in fifth place overall.[13]

References

  1. [1]
    Hart, Simon (18 October 2012). "Olympic Stadium set to host 2017 World Paralympic Championships". The Daily Telegraph. London.
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    "London named host city for 2017 Paralympic World Championships". BBC Sport. 19 December 2012. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
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    Rumsby, Ben (22 May 2017). "Russia will have no presence at World Para Athletics Championships and could face Winter Paralympics ban". The Telegraph. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
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    "Event Timetable" (PDF). London 2017 World Para Athletics Championships. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
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    "London 2017: Men's 800m T54 to be rerun following crash".
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    "'Hero' and 'Whizbee' are named as World Championships 2017 mascots". BBC Sport. 19 April 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
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    "IPC appoints Sunset+Vine as host broadcaster for World Para Athletics Championships". IPC. Retrieved 23 July 2017.[permanent dead link]
  8. [8]
    "London 2017 - medal count". www.paralympic.org. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  9. [9]
    "Medal Standings" (PDF). 2017 World Para Athletics Championships. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  10. [10]
    "Placing Table" (PDF). 2017 World Para Athletics Championships. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  11. [11]
    "London 2017 - multi-medallists". www.paralympic.org. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  12. [12]
    "London 2017 - Results and Schedule". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  13. [13]
    "Results - Men's Javelin Throw F41 Final" (PDF). IPC. 17 July 2017. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
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