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Track and Field
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Male
and female wheelchair athletes can participate in the 100m, 200m, 400m,
800m, 1500m and 10000m track events as well as the marathon. Racers wear
specially designed racing gloves, which allows for maximum grip.
Their wheelchairs consist of 3 wheels and a special compensator device
which is used to set the front of the wheels to the curvature of the track
so that steering around the bends is not needed. |
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Track
and field is one of the more popular wheelchair sports due to the fact
that these events are often included in able-bodied competitions. Field
events include the discus, shot put, and javelin.
Quadriplegics, who are unable to grasp a javelin, throw a club shaped like
a small bowling pin. All athletes may throw out of a regular wheelchair
or out of a custom made throwing chair, which has no wheels. Raising off
of the chair is a disqualifying position so athletes must remain in a stationary
position in their wheelchairs. |
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This
is Wali, who has polio, throwing the shot put. Wali is the national junior
champion for discuss and the benchpress, held in California this year.
The chair he is seated on was specially designed by the UH school of Engineering
for Wheelchair Sports Hawaii. |
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introduction
archery
basketball
bowling
track
and field University
of Hawai'i State
of Hawai'i contact |
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