Classification
Amputee based classification system
(a) General
The system is based on acquired amputations and dysmelia resembling acquired amputations.
(b) Abbreviations
AK = Above or through knee joint
BK = Below knee, but through or above talo-crural joint
AE = Above or through elbow joint
BE = Below elbow, but through or above wrist joint
(c) Minimal Handicap for amputee category:
Amputation through or aboe the talo-crural or wrist joint. If there is a question of the level of amputation, it is the responsibility of the athlete to produce a recent X-ray of the amputation stump at the time of classification.
Exceptions: see sports section rules respectively. If the classification team agrees that possible spicules of bone distal to the radio-ulnar joint or tibial-fibular joint are deemed non-functional.
(d) Basic classification code
Class A1 = Double AK Class A2 = Single AK
Class A3 = Double BK
Class A4 = Single BK
Class A5 = Double AE
Class A6 = Single AE
Class A7 = Double BE
Class A8 = Single BE
Class A9 = combined lower plus upper limb amputations
Note: The classification for winter sports is combined for locomotor disabilities. The prefix in winter sports classification is therefore LW (Locomotor Winter).
Comments
Dysmelia (not resembling acquired amputees) are to be classified in the Les Autres.
Combinations of amputations not specified above will be placed in the class closest to actual disability (e.g. combination BK/AK will in most sports be in class A3, and combination BE/AE will in most sports be in class A7).
The need for change of the number of classes shall be continously observed with regard to disadvantages, actual difference in performances, and number of athletes.
(BOCOG)