Record number: 551
Last update: May 2005

Editorial data: Testo: Caracciolo A. (Fond. Don Gnocchi), Pasqualetti C. (La Nostra Famiglia) Immagine: www.paralympic.org

Description:
(text automatically translated from Italian) This discipline comes practiced from persons with quadriplegia. The used wheelchairs are similar to those from basket and are designed in order to resist to hit and crashs since are allowed the physical contact. To such aim the wheelchairs mainly are reinforced in the inferior part of the footrests.