Sighted guide

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A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.

Sports[]

Paralympic Games[]

Pilot (L) and (R) won silver medals in cycling at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens

At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.

Rules are according to the International Blind Sports Association (IBSA) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

The sighted guides are such a close and essential part of the competition, that the athlete with a visual impairment and the guide are considered a team, and both athletes are medal candidates.[1]

Winter[]

At the Winter Paralympics there are three classifications of athletes with a visual impairment:

  • B1 (no useful vision)
  • B2 (minimal useful vision)
  • B3 (some useful vision).[2]

A sighted guide is required for B1 and B2, and optional for B3.

Nordic skiing:
The guide can lead, follow, or ski next to the athlete with a visual impairment. The guide assists with voice instruction only. No physical contact allowed.

Alpine skiing:
The start must have an adequate space for the guide. [3][4]

  • Combined
  • Downhill
  • Giant slalom
  • Slalom
  • Super-G

Summer[]

Timothée Adolphe and his sighted guide Cédric Felip

Athletics:
In athletics the sighted guides can win a medal.[5]

Cycling: Pilot
Equestrian:
Football 5-a-side:
Triathlon:

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Visually impaired skiers put fate in guide's hands, thestar.com, March 13, 2010
  2. ^ A look at the Paralympic Games, Universal Sports, March 9, 2010
  3. ^ IBSA Alpine Skiing rules 2005-2009, International Blind Sports Association (IBSA)
  4. ^ Visually impaired skiers put fate in guide's hands, Toronto Star, March 13, 2010
  5. ^ Exclusive: Guides to be awarded Paralympic medals at London 2012, insideworldparasport.biz, February 12, 2011

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