Athletics at the 2012 Summer Paralympics T/F20

Athletics at the XIV Paralympic Games
Paralympic Athletics
Venue	Olympic Stadium The Mall
Dates	31 August – 9 September 2012
Competitors	1100 (740 men, 360 women)

Athletics events at the 2012 Summer Paralympics were held in the Olympic Stadium and in The Mall in London, United Kingdom, from 31 August to 9 September 2012. A restricted number of events were held in the stadium for athletes with intellectual impairment.

Classification

Further information: Disability sport classification

Athletes were given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classification system allowed athletes to compete against others with a similar level of function.

The athletics classifications are:

• 11–13: Blind (11) and visually impaired (12, 13) athletes
• 20: Athletes with an intellectual disability
• 31–38: Athletes with cerebral palsy
• 40: Les Autres (others) (including people with dwarfism)
• 42–46: Amputees
• 51–58: Athletes with a spinal cord disability

The class numbers were given prefixes of "T" and "F" for track and field events, respectively.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Classification	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1500 m	T20	Peyman Nasiri Bazanjani  Iran	Daniel Pek  Poland	Rafal Korc  Poland
Long jump	F20	Jose Antonio Exposito Pineiro  Spain	Zoran Talic  Croatia	Lenine Cunha  Portugal
Shot put	F20	Todd Hodgetts  Australia	Jeffrey Ige  Sweden	Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli  Malaysia

Women's events

Event	Classification	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1500 m	T20	Barbara Niewiedzial (Guide)  Poland	Arleta Meloch (Guide)  Poland	Ilona Biacsi (Guide)  Hungary
Long jump	F20	Karolina Kucharczyk  Poland	Krestina Zhukova  Russia	Mikela Ristoski  Croatia
Shot put	F20	Ewa Durska  Poland	Anastasiia Mysnyk  Ukraine	Svitlana Kudelya  Ukraine

See also

• Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics

External links

• International Paralympic Committee - Athletics classification regulations