UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
Encyclopedia
The UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships are the world championship
s 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. The UCI and the IPC organized the 2006 IPC Cycling World Championships. The first UCI Para-cycling World Championships took place in 2007.
The UCI awards a gold medal and a rainbow jersey
to the winner and silver and bronze medals to the second and third.
.
Sport class
World championship
A world championship is the top achievement for any sport or contest. The title is usually awarded by contests, ranking systems, stature, ability, etc. This determines the best nation, team, individual in the world in a particular field. Certain sports do not have a world championship, instead...
s for track cycling
Track cycling
Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using track bicycles....
where athletes with a physical disability
Physical disability
A physical disability is any impairment which limits the physical function of one or more limbs or fine or gross motor ability. Other physical disabilities include impairments which limit other facets of daily living, such as respiratory disorders and epilepsy....
compete, organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale
Union Cycliste Internationale
Union Cycliste Internationale is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international competitive cycling events. The UCI is based in Aigle, Switzerland....
(UCI).
The Championships were earlier administered by the International Paralympic Committee. The UCI and the IPC organized the 2006 IPC Cycling World Championships. The first UCI Para-cycling World Championships took place in 2007.
The UCI awards a gold medal and a rainbow jersey
Rainbow jersey
The Rainbow jersey is the distinctive jersey worn by the reigning world champion in a bicycle racing discipline. The jersey is predominantly white with five horizontal bands in the UCI colours around the chest. From the bottom up the colours are: green, yellow, black, red and blue; the same colours...
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 Bordeaux Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture... |
August – August | ||||
| 2009 |
Manchester Manchester Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater... |
6 November – 8 November | Manchester Velodrome Manchester Velodrome Manchester Velodrome is an indoor cycle-racing track or velodrome in Manchester, northwest England. It opened in September 1994 and is the leading indoor Olympic-standard track in the United Kingdom. It houses the National Cycling Centre and British Cycling... |
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| 2011 |
Montichiari Montichiari Montichiari is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy. It received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree on December 27, 1991.... |
11 March – 13 March | Montichiari Velodrome | |||
| 2013 |
Classification
The classification system was reclassified in 2010/2011, and first used for the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
The 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships were the World Championships for track cycling where athletes with a physical disability competed in 2011...
.
Sport class
- Cycling
- C1 - locomotor disability: Neurological, or amputationAmputationAmputation is the removal of a body extremity by trauma, prolonged constriction, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on individuals as a preventative surgery for...
- 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
- C1 - locomotor disability: Neurological, or amputation
- Tandem
- Tandem B - visual impairmentVisual impairmentVisual impairment is vision loss to such a degree as to qualify as an additional support need through a significant limitation of visual capability resulting from either disease, trauma, or congenital or degenerative conditions that cannot be corrected by conventional means, such as refractive...
- 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.- Locomotor disability (LC)
- LC 1 -
- LC 2 -
- LC 3 -
- LC 4 -
- Cerebral palsyCerebral palsyCerebral palsy is an umbrella term encompassing a group of non-progressive, non-contagious motor conditions that cause physical disability in human development, chiefly in the various areas of body movement....
(CP)- CP 4 -
- CP 3 -
- CP 2 -
- CP 1 - Race on tricycles.
- Visual impairmentVisual impairmentVisual impairment is vision loss to such a degree as to qualify as an additional support need through a significant limitation of visual capability resulting from either disease, trauma, or congenital or degenerative conditions that cannot be corrected by conventional means, such as refractive...
(B/VI) - Use a tandem bicycle. A team, one athlete with a visual impairment and one sighted teammate (a pilotSighted guideA sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....
).- 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 acuityVisual acuityVisual acuity is acuteness or clearness of vision, which is dependent on the sharpness of the retinal focus within the eye and the sensitivity of the interpretative faculty of the brain....
of 2/60 and/or a field of vision of less than 5 degrees. - B3 - more sight than B2, up to a visual acuityVisual acuityVisual acuity is acuteness or clearness of vision, which is dependent on the sharpness of the retinal focus within the eye and the sensitivity of the interpretative faculty of the brain....
of 6/60 and/or a field of vision of less than 20 degrees.
- Handcycling (HC)
- A -
- B -
- C -