March Para-Sport of the Month: Para Snowboarding
- Different Abilities Team
- Mar 15, 2021
- 1 min read
Para snowboard is practiced worldwide. It features three disciplines: snowboard-cross, banked slalom, and giant slalom. Competition includes male and female athletes with a physical impairment (e.g. spinal injury, cerebral palsy, and amputation). Snowboarders use equipment that is adapted to their needs including snowboards and orthopaedic aids. Para snowboarding was first introduced to the Paralympic Games in Sochi in 2014, and is the most recent winter sport to be added.
Para snowboarders compete in 3 different sport classes according to level of physical impairment. The classification system is still growing and being refined.
- Sport Class SB-LL1: Snowboarders have a significant impairment in one leg, or a significant combined impairment in two legs. Athletes with amputations can use prosthetics during the races.
- Sport Class SB-LL2: Snowboarders have an impairment in one or two legs with less activity limitation
- Sport Class SB-UL: Snowboarders have impairments of the upper limbs
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