China at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
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| IPC code | CHN | ||||||||
| NPC | National Paralympic Committee of China | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 327 in 17 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer | Rong Jing | ||||||||
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Medals Ranked 1st |
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China has qualified to send athletes to the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. Sports China is scheduled to compete in include blind football, archery, boccia, cycling, goalball, judo, paracanoeing, sitting volleyball and wheelchair basketball.
Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis. Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.
The following Chinese competitors won medals at the Games.
* – Indicates ①track&field athlete only sign up in the heats, but not ran in the final race.②swimming athlete only swam in the heats but not in the final race.③archer athlete only shoot in the ranking round, but not in the Olympic rounds.
China qualified for the Paralympics after finishing second at the 2015 IBSA Blind Football Aaian Championships.
Coach:
Zou Hongmou (CHN), Xu Tao (CHN) Guide: Wang Guishun (CHN) The following is the China squad in the football 5-a-side tournament of the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
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