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    A wheelchair is a mobilized form of chair using 2 or more wheels, a footrest and armrest usually cushioned. It is used when walking is difficult or impossible...
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    Marathon (redirect from Wheelchair marathon)
    can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There are also wheelchair divisions. More than 800 marathons are held throughout the world each...
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    Wheelchair racing is the racing of wheelchairs in track and road races. Wheelchair racing is open to athletes with any qualifying type of disability, including...
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    Wheelchair basketball is a style of basketball played using a sports wheelchair. The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) is the governing...
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    A motorized wheelchair, powerchair, electric wheelchair or electric-powered wheelchair (EPW) is a wheelchair that is propelled by means of an electric...
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    Wheelchair rugby (originally murderball, and known as quad rugby in the United States) is a team sport for athletes with a disability. It is practiced...
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  • Championships and is also the founder of the Wheelchair Basketball Federation of India (WBI), India's national wheelchair basketball body. In 2011, she founded...
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  • 2024, comprising singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair tournaments are also scheduled. Novak Djokovic will be the defending champion...
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    Wheelchair fencing at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France will be held between 3 and 7 September. There will be a total of sixteen events: eight...
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    David Russell Weir CBE (born 5 June 1979) is a British Paralympic wheelchair athlete. He has won a total of six gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Paralympic...
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  • United Kingdom won the Men's Wheelchair Race, coming in at 3:20:07, and Denise Smith, also of the UK, won the Women's Wheelchair Race in 4:29:03. Twenty athletes...
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    Wheelchair tennis is one of the forms of tennis adapted for wheelchair users. The size of the court, net height and rackets are the same, but there are...
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  • Abilitysport Games are a parasports multi-sport event for athletes who use wheelchairs or are amputees. Organized by World Abilitysport (formerly IWAS), the...
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    A wheelchair ramp is an inclined plane installed in addition to or instead of stairs. Ramps permit wheelchair users, as well as people pushing strollers...
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    A wheelchair lift, also known as a platform lift, or vertical platform lift, is a fully powered device designed to raise a wheelchair and its occupant...
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    ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users. The original forms of tennis developed in France during the late...
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    Wheelchair fencing is a version of fencing for athletes with a disability. Wheelchair fencing is governed by the International Wheelchair and Amputee...
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    International Symbol of Access (ISA), also known as the (International) Wheelchair Symbol, denotes areas where access has been improved, mostly for those...
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  • Wheelchair racing at the 2004 Summer Olympics featured as a demonstration event within the athletics programme at the Athens Olympic Stadium on 22 August...
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    geographically dispersed population. Wheelchair basketball: A sport based on basketball but designed for disabled people in wheelchairs and considered one of the...
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    2:01:25 and 2:18:33 respectively; Kiptum's time was a course record. The wheelchair men's and women's competitions were won by Marcel Hug and Madison de Rozario...
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    Wheelchair tennis at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France will be held between 30 August and 7 September 2024. It will feature singles and doubles...
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    or wheelchair pickleball, was officially recognized as a competitive branch of pickleball by USA Pickleball in 2016. Rules for those in wheelchairs are...
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    Eden Rainbow-Cooper (category English female wheelchair racers)
    a T54 athlete who competes as a wheelchair racer. She was born with sacral agenesis. Rainbow-Cooper began wheelchair racing in 2013 and is since 2023...
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    impairments to complete tasks. Adaptations to wheelchair tires are another example; widening the tires enables wheelchair users to move over soft surfaces, such...
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  • lists of wheelchair tennis champions: List of men's wheelchair tennis champions List of women's wheelchair tennis champions List of quad wheelchair tennis...
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    Wheelchair basketball at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France will be hosted between 29 August to 8 September 2024. It will feature men's and women's...
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    International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the International...
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    the 2012 Paralympics. In wheelchair racing athletes compete in lightweight racing chairs. Most major marathons have wheelchair divisions and the elite...
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  • professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Junior and wheelchair players competed in singles and doubles tournaments. The tournament's...
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