Luca Michelini

in Seoul Paralympics 88, the classification system for wheelchair fencing proposed by Rita Strohm of Germany was introduced.
It is an integrated classification which allows athletes with different disabilities…

Amputee
poliomyelitis
Cerebral palsy and
paraplegics
…the opportunity to compete together

would you like to join wheelchair fencing?
contact:
IWF
Iwas Wheelchair Fencing

Why Classify?

...to group toghether
those fencers who have an approximately
equal movement potential
To give everybody the chance of a
fair competition