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 – 20 March | Montichiari Velodrome | 31 | 215 |
Classification
The classification system was reclassified in 2010/2011, and first used for the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships.[8][9]
- 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
References
- 1 2 Develop para-cycling together - Integration of Para-cycling within National Cycling Federations, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)
- ↑ IPC Cycling to become part of UCI, cyclingnews.com, April 20, 2009
- ↑ Model of Integration: USI Para-cycling, csd.gob.es
- ↑ Official site of the 2009 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
- ↑ Official site of the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
- ↑ Official site of the 2012 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
- ↑ Official site of the 2014 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
- ↑ Double gold for Aussies on day one of World Championships, cyclenation.com.au, March 12, 2011
- ↑ Double gold for Aussies on day one of World Championships, nsw.cycling.org.au, March 14, 2011
- ↑ UCI Cycling Regulations - Part 16 Para-cycling, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)
- ↑ , Canadian Cycling Association, 2010
- ↑ UCI Classification Guide, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)
- ↑ About Disability Cycling, British Cycling
- ↑ Disciplines - Para-Cycling, Canadian Cycling Association