A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment. At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes...
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Myopia (redirect from Short-sightedness)
Myopia, also known as near-sightedness and short-sightedness, is an eye condition where light from distant objects focuses in front of, instead of on...
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was the sighted pilot for Anthony Kappes as they won gold in the 2012 Paralympic Games. For the first time in those games, the sighted guides of blind...
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Farsightedness (redirect from Long-sightedness)
Far-sightedness, also known as long-sightedness, hypermetropia, and hyperopia, is a condition of the eye where distant objects are seen clearly but near...
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Amelia Hodgson (category Paralympic sighted guides)
June 1997) is an Australian skier and sighted guide for visually impaired skiers. She was Patrick Jensen's guide at the 2022 Winter Paralympics. Hodgson...
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are Guide Dogs-bred dogs which haven't qualified to become a guide dog. Guide Dogs works with communities and companies to provide sighted guiding skills...
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compete with a sighted guide. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, for the first time at an international athletics event, the guides received medals...
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Track athletes 11–13 = Visual impairment. 11 and 12 compete with a sighted guide. 20 = Intellectual impairment 31–38 = Cerebral palsy 40–41 = dwarfism...
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B2 (classification) (section Guides)
competitors in this class may differ from sport to sport, and may include sighted guides, guide rails, beeping balls and clapsticks. There may be some modifications...
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Visual impairment (redirect from Partially sighted)
cataracts (33%), and glaucoma (2%). Refractive errors include near-sightedness, far-sightedness, presbyopia, and astigmatism. Cataracts are the most common cause...
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Pierre Couquelet (category Paralympic sighted guides)
events at the 1984 Winter Olympics. He was scheduled to compete as sighted guide for visually impaired para-alpine skier Linda Le Bon at the 2022 Winter...
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skier, Paralympic alpine ski coach and sighted guide for visually impaired skiers. He was Jessica Gallagher's guide skier at the 2014 Winter Paralympics...
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museum, university or heritage place Sighted guide, a person who guides a person who is blind or partially sighted Guide dog, assistance dogs trained to lead...
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February 1994) is an Australian skier and sighted guide for visually impaired skiers. She was Melissa Perrine's guide at the 2022 Winter Paralympics. Kelly's...
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competitors in this class may differ from sport to sport, and may include sighted guides, guide rails, beeping balls and clapsticks. There may be some modifications...
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Eddy Hollands (category Paralympic sighted guides)
medal in the Men's 1 km Time Trial Tandem open event. Australian Media Guide : 2000 Paralympic Games. Sydney: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2000....
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Lynette Nixon (category Paralympic sighted guides)
Lynette ("Lyn") Nixon, OAM is an Australian Paralympic tandem cycling pilot. At the 2000 Sydney Games, she won a gold medal in the Women's Tandem open...
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Canada, he won a gold medal in the Super-G, visually impaired. His sighted guide at Turin 2006 and Vancouver 2010 was Sophie Troc. "Nicolas Berejny"...
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Caitlin Ward (category Paralympic sighted guides)
out on selection for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In 2022, Ward became the sighted pilot for blind Paralympian Jessica Gallagher at the Commonwealth Games...
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Charlotte Evans (category Paralympic sighted guides)
Charlotte Evans MBE (born 29 March 1991) is a British skier, sighted guide and Paralympian. She is from Chatham in Kent, and attended Rochester Grammar...
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Joan Borrisser (category Spanish sighted guides)
is a Spanish track and field sighted guide. He represented Spain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in this role as a guide for Martín Parejo Maza. Borrisser...
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Nick Brush (category Paralympic sighted guides)
Nicholas Brush is a Canadian alpine skier, sighted guide and Paralympian. He competed as the sighted guide for Chris Williamson in the 2010 Winter Paralympics...
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Aleix Suñé (category Paralympic sighted guides)
May 1986 and was honoured at the 2010 Sports Gala XV. Suñé was the sighted guide skier for Gabriel Gorce and Andrés Boira. At the 2007 Paralympic Winter...
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Darren Harry (category Paralympic sighted guides)
Darren, OAM". It's an Honour. Retrieved 27 January 2012. Australian Media Guide : 2000 Paralympic Games. Sydney: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2000....
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Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, with her husband Rob Umstead as her sighted guide. They took the bronze medal at the downhill and combined. She also competed...
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Stephanie Morton (category Paralympic sighted guides)
Stephanie Morton, OAM (born 28 November 1990) is a retired Australian track cyclist who participated in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. She has won national...
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Katie Compton (category Paralympic sighted guides)
she rides a tandem with a blind partner Karissa Whitsell. Compton, the sighted team member, pilots and pedals the tandem in the captain position while...
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Michael Buchleitner (category Paralympic sighted guides)
Michael Buchleitner (born 14 October 1969 in Mödling) is an Austrian long-distance runner. Up to 1999 he specialized in the 3000 metres steeplechase. He...
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Robin Bryntesson (category Paralympic sighted guides)
during his career since 2007. Bryntesson won a silver medal as the sighted guide for Zebastian Modin at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang. All...
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Miguel Galindo Garcés (category Paralympic sighted guides)
Galindo Garcés is a Spanish alpine skier, and para-alpine sighted guide. As Jon Santacana's guide, he competed at the 2002 Winter Paralympics where he earned...
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