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Article: An analysis of classification for top 10 finishers in prominent wheelchair road races.
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- Palaestra
- Article date:
- June 22, 1992
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Road racing may be the most popular wheelchair sport when considering numbers of participants, media coverage, and spectators. Wheelchair road racing evolved out of the desires of some wheelchair athletes to test their abilities, improve fitness, and compete alongside their running peers (Cooper, 1990). Wheelchair road racing has developed, for the most part, outside the domain of governing bodies for wheelchair sport.
Most road races do not recognize classification systems of the National Wheelchair Athletic Association (NWAA), or International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation (ISMGF). These races usually recognize divisions for men and women only, while a ...