para canoe
Sign in to saveAlso known as paracanoeing, para canoeing, paracanoe
thumb|right|Australian Curtis McGrath celebrates his win in the men's VL3 va'a event at the Tokyo Paralympics. Paracanoe is canoeing for athletes with a range of physical disabilities. The Paralympic version of the sport is governed by the International Canoe Federation (ICF), and a va'a-specific variant is governed by the International Va'a Federation (IVF).
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- type of sport
- Subclass of
- parasport
- Official website
- www.canoeicf.com/icf/Aboutoursport/Paracanoe.html
- Image
- 040921 McGrath celebrates va'a win Tokyo KM edit.JPEG
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Equipment
- ICF paracanoe
- Classification
- Competition format
- ICF World Championships
- IVF paracanoe
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|right|Australian Curtis McGrath celebrates his win in the men's VL3 va'a event at the Tokyo Paralympics. Paracanoe is canoeing for athletes with a range of physical disabilities. The Paralympic version of the sport is governed by the International Canoe Federation (ICF), and a va'a-specific variant is governed by the International Va'a Federation (IVF).
A meeting of the International Paralympic Committee in Guangzhou, China in 2010 decided to add paracanoe to the Paralympic programme. As a result, paracanoe debuted at the Rio 2016 Summer Paralympics where single kayak races were contested.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “para canoe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.