World Para Athletics European Championships
| Sport | Athletics |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2005 |
| Continent | International (IPC) |
The IPC Athletics European Championships is an event organized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Athletes with a physical disability compete, and there is also a specific category for athletes with an intellectual disability. Originally it was an Open Championship organised every year, but after the event was frozen after 2006 it returned in 2011 and it is now organised biennially.
The first IPC Athletics European Championships was held in Espoo, Finland in 2005 as an Open Championship.
Championships
| Edition | Year | City | Country | Date | Venue | No. of Events |
No. of Athletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2005 () | Espoo[1] |  Finland
|
22 Aug – 27 Aug | Leppävaara stadium | 750 | |
| 2nd | 2006 () | Assen[2] |  Netherlands
|
2 Sep - 10 Sep | Circuit van Drenthe | approx 1100 | |
| 3rd | 2012 () | Stadskanaal | Netherlands
|
23 Jul – 28 Jul | Stadskanaal Stadium | ||
| 4th | 2014 () | Swansea |  United Kingdom
|
Classification
- F = field athletes
- T = track athletes
- P = pentathlon
- 11-13 – visually impaired, 11 and 12 compete with a sighted guide
- 20 – intellectual disability
- 31-38 – cerebral palsy or other conditions that affect muscle co-ordination and control. Athletes in class 31-34 compete in a seated position; athletes in class 35-38 compete standing.
- 41-46 – amputation, les autre
- 51-58 – wheelchair athletes
See also
References
- ^ Burnett, Mike (16 August 2005). "Forget Helsinki". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
- ^ Burnett, Mike (30 August 2006). "Assen Gets Set". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
