
Wheelchair Rugby is a sport for quadriplegic (tetraplegic) male and female athletes. Players are classed into one of seven classes: 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0 and 3.5, depending on their functional ability. The higher classes are assigned to those players that have higher functional levels and the lower class players are players with less function.[Full story]


The Evolution of Paralympic GamesIn 1948, Sir Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition involving World War II veterans with a spinal cord injury in Stoke Mandeville, England. More>>