2017 World Para Athletics Championships

2017 World Para Athletics Championships

Host city	London, England, United Kingdom
Nations participating	92
Athletes participating	1074
Events	213
Dates	14–23 July
Main venue	Olympic Stadium
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The 2017 World Para Athletics Championships were a Paralympic track and field meet organized by the World Para Athletics subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee, held at Olympic Stadium in London from 14 to 23 July 2017. It was the 8th edition of the event, formerly known as the IPC Athletics World Championship prior to 2017, and featured 213 medal events.

They preceded the 2017 IAAF World Championships also being held in London, marking the first time that a single city has 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

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.

Schedule

All dates are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Source:^[3]

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.^[4]

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.^[5]

Broadcasting

Sunset + Vine, who has produced Channel 4's Paralympics coverage, was named the host broadcaster for the event. Channel 4 also served as domestic rightsholder.^[6]

Medal table

•   Host nation (Great Britain)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	30	17	18	65
2	United States	20	19	20	59
3	Great Britain	18	8	13	39
4	Ukraine	12	6	11	29
5	Australia	11	9	8	28
6	Tunisia	10	6	8	24
7	Algeria	9	4	6	19
8	Germany	8	7	7	22
9	Brazil	8	7	6	21
10	South Africa	5	8	2	15
11	Morocco	5	1	1	7
12	Poland	4	10	14	28
13	Italy	4	4	2	10
14	Ireland	4	3	0	7
15	Canada	4	2	3	9
16	Cuba	4	1	0	5
16	Latvia	4	1	0	5
18	Iran	3	12	5	20
19	Uzbekistan	3	4	0	7
20	Switzerland	3	1	0	4
21	Japan	2	5	9	16
22	Greece	2	3	3	8
23	Finland	2	2	2	6
24	Malaysia	2	1	0	3
25	Serbia	2	0	1	3
25	Trinidad and Tobago	2	0	1	3
27	Belgium	2	0	0	2
27	Kenya	2	0	0	2
29	Portugal	1	5	4	10
30	Netherlands	1	5	1	7
31	Colombia	1	4	5	10
32	Mexico	1	4	4	9
33	Spain	1	3	7	11
34	Croatia	1	2	2	5
34	India	1	2	2	5
36	Bulgaria	1	1	2	4
37	Austria	1	1	1	3
38	Denmark	1	1	0	2
38	Iraq	1	1	0	2
38	Qatar	1	1	0	2
41	Hungary	1	0	1	2
41	Lithuania	1	0	1	2
43	Bahrain	1	0	0	1
43	Kuwait	1	0	0	1
43	Uganda	1	0	0	1
46	France	0	4	4	8
47	Thailand	0	3	4	7
48	Argentina	0	3	2	5
49	Ecuador	0	3	1	4
49	United Arab Emirates	0	3	1	4
51	Namibia	0	3	0	3
52	New Zealand	0	2	3	5
53	Egypt	0	1	3	4
54	Angola	0	1	1	2
54	Sweden	0	1	1	2
56	Chile	0	1	0	1
56	Iceland	0	1	0	1
56	Jamaica	0	1	0	1
56	Luxembourg	0	1	0	1
56	Oman	0	1	0	1
56	Sri Lanka	0	1	0	1
56	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
63	Turkey	0	0	3	3
64	Belarus	0	0	2	2
64	South Korea	0	0	2	2
66	Cyprus	0	0	1	1
Total		202	202	198	602

Source:^{[7] [8]}

Placing table

•   Host nation (Great Britain)

Rank	Name (country)	Points
1	China	611
2	United States	561.5
3	Great Britain	414
4	Poland	324.5
5	Australia	311
6	Ukraine	280
7	Japan	275
8	Brazil	213.5
9	Tunisia	205
10	Germany	201
11	Algeria	189
12	South Africa	187
13	Spain	163
14	Iran	156
15	Canada	133
Total (87 Nations)		210 Events

Source: ^[9]

Individual medallists

The following athletes won three or more medals, with at least two being gold:^[10]

Rank	Name (country)	Medals
1	Walid Ktila (TUN)	01 ! Men's 100 m T34 01 ! Men's 200 m T34 01 ! Men's 400 m T34 01 ! Men's 800 m T34
1	Brent Lakatos (CAN)	01 ! Men's 100 m T53 01 ! Men's 200 m T53 01 ! Men's 400 m T53 01 ! Men's 800 m T53
1	Tatyana McFadden (USA)	01 ! Women's 200 m T54 01 ! Women's 400 m T54 01 ! Women's 800 m T54 01 ! Women's 1500 m T54
4	Johannes Floors (GER)	01 ! Men's 200 m T43 01 ! Men's 400 m T43 01 ! Men's 4×100 m relay T42-47 02 ! Men's 100 m T44
5	Leilia Adzhametova (UKR)	01 ! Women's 100 m T13 01 ! Women's 200 m T13 01 ! Women's 400 m T13
5	Hannah Cockroft (GBR)	01 ! Women's 100 m T34 01 ! Women's 400 m T34 01 ! Women's 800 m T34
5	Diana Dadzite (LAT)	01 ! Women's shot put F55 01 ! Women's discus throw F55 01 ! Women's javelin throw F56
5	Marcel Hug (SUI)	01 ! Men's 800 m T54 01 ! Men's 1500 m T54 01 ! Men's 5000 m T54
5	James Turner (AUS)	01 ! Men's 200 m T36 01 ! Men's 400 m T36 02 ! Men's 800 m T36
10	Yassine Gharbi (TUN)	01 ! Men's 200 m T54 01 ! Men's 400 m T54 02 ! Men's 1500 m T54 03 ! Men's 800 m T54
11	Michael Brannigan (USA)	01 ! Men's 800 m T20 01 ! Men's 1500 m T20 02 ! Men's 5000 m T20
11	Charl du Toit (RSA)	01 ! Men's 200 m T37 01 ! Men's 400 m T37 02 ! Men's 100 m T37
13	Samantha Kinghorn (GBR)	01 ! Women's 100 m T53 01 ! Women's 200 m T53 03 ! Women's 400 m T53
13	Zhou Hongzhuan (CHN)	01 ! Women's 400 m T53 01 ! Women's 800 m T53 03 ! Women's 100 m T53

World Records

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

Event	Round	Name	Nation	Time/Distance	Date
Men's Shot Put F38	Final	Cameron Crombie	Australia	15.95 m	14 July
Women's 100m T34	Final	Hannah Cockroft	Great Britain	17.18	14 July
Men's Shot Put F20	Final	Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli	Malaysia	17.29 m	15 July
Women's Discus Throw F52	Final	Cassie Mitchell	United States	13.23 m	15 July
Women's Javelin Throw F46	Final	Hollie Arnold	Great Britain	43.02 m	15 July
Men's 100m T47	Final	Petrucio Ferreira dos Santos	Brazil	10.53	15 July
Women's 200m T38	Final	Sophie Hahn	Great Britain	26.11	15 July
Women's 200m T53	Final	Samantha Kinghorn	Great Britain	28.61	15 July
Men's 200m T36	Qualifying Heat	James Turner	Australia	24.15	16 July
Men's 5000m T13	Final	Youssef Benibrahim	Morocco	14:20.69	16 July
Men's Club Throw F51	Final	Zeljko Dimitrijevic	Serbia	31.99 m	16 July
Women's 100m T44	Qualifying Heat	Sophie Kamlish	Great Britain	12.90	17 July
Women's Javelin Throw F56	Final	Diana Dadzite	Latvia	27.07 m	17 July
Men's 200m T36	Final	James Turner	Australia	24.09	17 July
Men's Javelin Throw F40	Final	Ahmed Naas	Iraq	38.90	17 July
Men's Discus Throw F52	Final	Andre Rocha	Brazil	23.80 m	18 July
Men's Triple Jump T20	Final	Dmytro Prudnikov	Ukraine	15.50 m	18 July
Men's Javelin Throw F43	Final	Akeem Stewart	Trinidad and Tobago	57.61 m	18 July
Men's High Jump T13	Final	Isaac Jean-Paul	United States	2.17 m	18 July
Women's 400m T20	Final	Breanna Clark	United States	56.33	18 July
Women's 100m T35	Final	Isis Holt	Australia	13.43	19 July
Men's Javelin Throw F13	Final	Aleksandr Svechnikov	Uzbekistan	71.01 m	19 July
Men's Shot Put F55	Final	Ruzhdi Ruzhdi	Bulgaria	12.47 m	20 July
Women's 400m T37	Final	Georgina Hermitage	Great Britain	1:00.29	20 July
Men's Shot Put F41	Final	Niko Kappel	Germany	13.81 m	20 July
Women's 100m T36	Final	Shi Yiting	China	13.68	20 July
Men's 400m T13	Final	Mohamed Amguoun	Morocco	46.92	21 July
Men's Javelin Throw F38	Final	Jayden Sawyer	Australia	52.96 m	22 July
Men's 200m T47	Final	Petrucio Ferreira dos Santos	Brazil	21.21	22 July
Women's 100m T38	Final	Sophie Hahn	Great Britain	12.44	22 July
Men's Shot Put F42	Final	Aled Davies	Great Britain	17.52 m	22 July
Men's Shot Put F43	Final	Akeem Stewart	Trinidad and Tobago	19.08 m	23 July
Men's Shot Put F32	Final	Lahouari Bahlaz	Algeria	11.08 m	23 July

Naas set a world record competing in the F41 men's javelin, though his throw left him in fifth place overall.^[11]

Participating nations

Below is the list of 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.^[12]

See also

• 2017 World Junior Para Athletics Championships

References

External links

• Official website
• Records broken