A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.
Sports 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.Visually impaired skiers put fate in guide's hands, thestar.com, March 13, 2010
Winter At the Winter Paralympics there are three classifications of athletes with a visual impairment: B1 (no useful vision) B2 (minimal useful vision) B3 (some useful vision).A look at the Paralympic Games, Universal Sports, March 9, 2010 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.IBSA Alpine Skiing rules 2005-2009, International Blind Sports Association (IBSA)Visually impaired skiers put fate in guide's hands, Toronto Star, March 13, 2010 Combined Downhill Giant slalom Slalom Super-G
Summer
Athletics:In athletics the sighted guides can win a medal.Exclusive: Guides to be awarded Paralympic medals at London 2012, insideworldparasport.biz, February 12, 2011
Cycling: Pilot Equestrian: Football 5-a-side: Triathlon:
See also Guide dog White cane
References
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