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SPORTS > ATHLETICS > WHEELCHAIR RUNNING > AIDS
Record number: 498
Last update: August 2011
Last update: August 2011
Editorial data: Testo: Caracciolo A. (Fond. Don Gnocchi), Pasqualetti C. (La Nostra Famiglia) Immagine: www.paralympic.org
Description:
(text automatically translated from Italian) The race of athletes in wheelchair, depending on the the specialty, previews uses it of personalized wheelchairs and with various technical characteristics. The wheelchairs used for the race contests on track are usually to three wheels with the posterior ones from 28 " and that front one from 16 ". The rings on the posterior wheels have a diameter that varies the type of push depending on the. The position assumed in contest ***dall' the athlete is with the knee much bent and to contact with the trunk. For the specialties on road a small handle-bar is used, place on turns front, that it allows to follow the curves of the road.
(text automatically translated from Italian) The race of athletes in wheelchair, depending on the the specialty, previews uses it of personalized wheelchairs and with various technical characteristics. The wheelchairs used for the race contests on track are usually to three wheels with the posterior ones from 28 " and that front one from 16 ". The rings on the posterior wheels have a diameter that varies the type of push depending on the. The position assumed in contest ***dall' the athlete is with the knee much bent and to contact with the trunk. For the specialties on road a small handle-bar is used, place on turns front, that it allows to follow the curves of the road.
