World Para Athletics Championships

World Para Athletics Championships
Most recent season or competition:
2017 World Para Athletics Championships
Formerly IPC Athletics World Championships (1994–2017)
Sport Athletics
Founded 1994
Continent International (IPC)

The World Para Athletics Championships, known as the IPC Athletics World Championships prior to 2017, are a biennial Paralympic athletics event organized by World Para Athletics, a subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). It features athletics events contested by athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities. The first IPC Athletics World Championships were held in Berlin, Germany in 1994.[1][2]

They are a Paralympic parallel to the IAAF World Championships in Athletics for able-bodied athletes. Since 2011, when they switched from a quadrennial scheduling to biennial, the IPC championships have been held in the same years as the IAAF championships, although they are separate events and were not necessarily held in the same host city. In 2017, London, which previously hosted the 2012 Summer Paralympics, became the first city to host both the IAAF World Championships and World Para Athletics Championships in the same year.[3][4]

Championships

Senior

Edition Year City Country Date Venue No. of
Events		 No. of
Athletes		 Best Nation
1 1994 () Berlin  Germany 22–31 July Berlin Olympiastadion 1154
2 1998 () Birmingham  United Kingdom 6–16 August Alexander Stadium over 1000  United Kingdom
3 2002 () Lille  France 20–28 July Stadium Nord Lille Métropole  China
4 2006 () Assen  Netherlands 2–10 September Sports Park Stadsbroek  China
5 2011 () Christchurch  New Zealand 21–30 January Queen Elizabeth II Park 213 1060  China
6 2013 () Lyon  France 19–28 July Stade du Rhône 207 1073  Russia
7 2015 () Doha  Qatar 22–31 October Suheim Bin Hamad Stadium 212 1230  China
8 2017 () London  United Kingdom 14–23 July Olympic Stadium, Stratford 213 1074  China

Junior (U18 and U20)

Edition Year City Country Date Venue No. of
Events		 No. of
Athletes		 Best Nation
1 2017 () Nottwil   Switzerland 3-6 August Sport Arena Nottwil 275 (40 Country)  United States

2017 Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  USA 18 8 10 36
2  Iran 12 5 5 22
3  Great Britain 11 4 5 20
4  Mexico 8 7 3 18
5  Colombia 8 4 2 14
6  Brazil 7 6 3 16
7  Japan 7 0 2 9
8  Australia 5 6 9 20
9  Spain 5 5 6 16
10  Germany 5 5 5 15
11  South Africa 4 0 1 5
12  Poland 3 4 1 8
13  Turkey 3 1 1 5
14  Argentina 2 5 3 10
15  India 2 3 0 5
16  Canada 2 2 1 5
17  Chile 2 2 0 4
18  Austria 2 1 2 5
19  Ecuador 2 1 2 5
20  Saudi Arabia 2 0 0 2
21  Italy 1 4 5 10
22  Croatia 1 3 0 4
23  Portugal 1 2 1 4
24  New Zealand 1 1 0 2
25   Switzerland 1 1 0 2
26  Bulgaria 1 0 1 2
27  Norway 1 0 1 2
28  United Arab Emirates 0 5 2 7
29  Belarus 0 3 0 3
30  Belgium 0 2 2 4
31  Jamaica 0 2 1 3
32  Czech Republic 0 1 0 1
33  Hong Kong 0 1 0 1
34  France 0 0 1 1
35  Iceland 0 0 1 1
Total 117 94 76 287

Finland, Kazakhstan, Korea, Lithuania, Namibia can not gain medals.


All-time medal table 2011–2017

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  China 102 78 55 235
2  Russia 68 48 41 157
3  USA 59 63 62 184
4  Great Britain 54 36 47 137
5  Brazil 44 41 41 126
6  Ukraine 37 33 42 112
7  Tunisia 37 21 15 73
8  Germany 34 28 33 95
9  Poland 33 30 35 98
10  Australia 31 42 40 113
11  Algeria 29 25 20 74
12  Cuba 22 4 2 28
13  South Africa 20 32 22 74
14  Canada 19 15 13 47
15  France 14 17 20 51
16  Morocco 13 7 13 33
17  Italy 13 6 5 24
18  Ireland 13 6 3 19
19  Iran 12 23 14 49
20  Mexico 12 13 11 36
21   Switzerland 11 16 8 35
22  Japan 9 17 31 57
23  Spain 9 12 26 47
24  Netherlands 8 13 16 37
25  Latvia 8 4 1 13
26  Belgium 8 0 0 8
27  Greece 6 14 15 35
28  Finland 6 13 8 27
29  Azerbaijan 6 5 5 16
30  Croatia 5 8 9 22

Classification

See also

References

  1. ↑ IPC Athletics World Championships To Begin in France, International Paralympic Committee, 19 July 2002
  2. ↑ The cultural politics of the paralympic movement, By David Howe, 2008, Social Science, Google Books
  3. ↑ Hart, Simon (18 October 2012). "Olympic Stadium set to host 2017 World Paralympic Championships". The Daily Telegraph. London.
  4. ↑ "London named host city for 2017 Paralympic World Championships". BBC sport. 19 December 2012. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
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