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How para athletics works

Para athletics is running, jumping, throwing and wheelchair racing for athletes with an eligible impairment. Athletes compete in sport classes of similar impairment, so results compare like with like.
The class is a letter and a number: T for track and jumps, F for throws, and the number for the kind of impairment, such as 11 to 13 for vision.
The most vision-impaired runners (T11) race with a guide-runner, joined by a tether. Wheelchair racers use a three-wheeled racing chair; some throwers throw seated from a fixed frame.
Otherwise a race or a throw works as in athletics: the first across the line, or the longest throw or jump, wins. A false start disqualifies.