A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.
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Paralympic Games
At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.
Rules are according to the International Blind Sports Association (IBSA) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
The sighted guides are such a close and essential part of the competition, that the athlete with a visual impairment and the guide are considered a team, and both athletes are medal candidates.1
Winter
At the Winter Paralympics there are three classifications of athletes with a visual impairment:
A sighted guide is required for B1 and B2, and optional for B3.
Nordic skiing: The guide can lead, follow, or ski next to the athlete with a visual impairment. The guide assists with voice instruction only. No physical contact allowed.
Alpine skiing: The start must have an adequate space for the guide. 34
- Combined
- Downhill
- Giant slalom
- Slalom
- Super-G
Summer
Athletics:In athletics the sighted guides can win a medal.5
Cycling: Pilot Equestrian: Football 5-a-side: Triathlon:
See also
External links
- Being a Sighted Guide, American Foundation for the Blind
- Sighted Guide Techniques, Braille Institute of America
- Video: Guide Running at United States Olympic Committee
References
Visually impaired skiers put fate in guide's hands, thestar.com, March 13, 2010 https://www.thestar.com/sports/article/779425--visually-impaired-skiers-put-fate-in-guide-s-hands ↩
A look at the Paralympic Games, Universal Sports, March 9, 2010 http://www.universalsports.com/news/article/newsid=456809.html ↩
IBSA Alpine Skiing rules 2005-2009, International Blind Sports Association (IBSA) http://www.ibsa.es/eng/deportes/alpineskiing/reglamento.htm ↩
Visually impaired skiers put fate in guide's hands, Toronto Star, March 13, 2010 https://www.thestar.com/sports/article/779425--visually-impaired-skiers-put-fate-in-guide-s-hands ↩
Exclusive: Guides to be awarded Paralympic medals at London 2012, insideworldparasport.biz, February 12, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20120317184215/http://www.insideworldparasport.biz/insideparasport/9218-guides-to-be-awarded-paralympic-gold-medals ↩