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- Updated: October 25, 2016
Ed Warner says the performances of athletes at the Rio Paralympics shows the sport is continuing to develop at pace.
The complexity of classifications within disability athletics means that there were 177 medal events in the Rio Paralympics, more than three times the number in the Olympic athletics programme.
While an athlete can only compete against those in the race, detractors say Paralympic medals are too easy to win. For instance, a significant number of events go straight to a final due to the small number of entrants, such as the T34 800m in which Hannah Cockcroft completed a set of three gold medals in the T34 category – a classification for athletes with cerebral palsy or similar neurological conditions.
Warner, chairman of UK Athletics who also acts as the chair of the International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) technical committee, pointed out that the 800m for T34 athletes was a new event, and was held for the first time only last year in Doha at the World Championships – athletes in the T34 class competed in the 100m and 200m on the track in …
