The 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships was the biggest track and field competition for athletes with a disability since the 2012 Summer Paralympics. It was held in Lyon, France, and lasted from 20 to 28 July. Around 1,100 athletes competed, from 94 different countries. The event was held in the Stade du Rhône located at the Parc de Parilly in Vénissieux, in Lyon Metropolis.
Venue
The Championship was staged at the Stade du Rhône in the Parc de Parilly. The stadium, previously known as the Stade Parilly, was refurbished in 2012 and officially reopened and renamed on 3 September 2012.
Format The 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships was an invitational tournament taking in track and field events. No combined sports were included in the 2013 Championships, with the pentathlon dropped. A total of 1,300 places were made available to all IPC affiliated countries, with 94 countries accepting the invitation and 1,073 athletes reaching the sporting criteria requested. Of the 1,300 available places, 900 were made available for male athletes and 400 for female athlete. No country could send more than 55 male athletes and 25 female athletes, and only three athletes per event, apart from the marathons where six were allowed, or multi-classification events (such as F54/55/56 javelin) where five athletes could be entered. All events, apart from the marathons, took place within the Stade du Rhône. Not all events were open to all classifications, with several throwing and jumping events being contested between classifications, which were then decided on a points system. The men's 100m relay was the only event to use mixed classifications as a team, with each leg of the relay contested by a different classification athlete. There were no women's relay events. In total there were 207 events held over 17 disciplines.
Athletes finishing in first place are awarded the gold medal, second place the silver medal and third place the bronze. If only three competitors are available to challenge for an event then no bronze medal is awarded.
Coverage The International Paralympic Committee provided live video coverage on its website,"Lyon 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships: Live Stream", International Paralympic Committee as well as live coverage, videos of events and interviews on its ParalympicSportTV channel on YouTube.ParalympicSportTV
In the host country, France, the television channel France 4 broadcast two hours daily in the evening. This followed criticism that French television had given insufficient coverage to the 2012 Summer Paralympics."France Télévisions diffusera les championnats du monde d'athlétisme handisport 2013", Télérama, 19 July 2013
In the United Kingdom, Channel 4's sister channel More4 aired over five hours of live coverage daily throughout the Championship. This continued Channel 4's commitment to broadcasting disability sport until at least 2016.
Events
Opening ceremony The opening ceremony was held at Stade du Rhone on Friday 19 July. The spectators were entertained by a celebration of Lyon's cultural heritage with an historic re-enactment, followed by a parade of athletes representing the 90 participating nations filed into the stadium.
Speeches were made by Gérard Masson, President of the Organisation Committee and Sir Philip Craven, IPC President. Before the host nation national anthem played, master corporal Thomas Brun, a wounded veteran of the Afghanistan war, passed on the Tricolour to French athletes of the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
Classification
To ensure competition is as fair and balanced as possible, athletes are classified dependent on how their disability impacts on their chosen event/s. Thus athletes may compete in an event against competitors with a different disability to themselves. Where there are more than one classification in one event, (for example discus throw F54/55/56), a points system is used to determine the winner.
F = field athletes T = track athletes 11-13 – visually impaired, 11 and 12 compete with a sighted guide 20 – intellectual disability 31-38 – cerebral palsy or other conditions that affect muscle co-ordination and control. Athletes in class 31-34 compete in a seated position; athletes in class 35-38 compete standing. 41-46 – amputation, les autres 51-58 – wheelchair athletes
Schedule
● Opening ceremony Events ● Closing ceremony
Date → 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 100 m MenDetails T37T36T38T51 T35T43T44T52 T34T46 T12T13 T53T54T11T42 WomenDetails T34T35 T11 T38T12T13T37 T53T54T44 T52 T42T36T46 200 m MenDetails T11T12T13T43T44 T46T34 T42 T36T37T38T53T54 T51T52 T35 WomenDetails T34 T53T54T12 T37T38 T36 T46 T13 T11T35T44T52 400 m MenDetails T53T54 T36T37T38T46T44 T11T12T13T34T52 WomenDetails T46 T11 T37T53T54T13 800 m MenDetails T37T52T13T36T46T12T53T54 T11 T34 WomenDetails T11 T53T54 T52 1500 m MenDetails T52 T36T38 T20T46T11T12T13 T54 WomenDetails T54 T12T20 5000 m MenDetails T11T12T46 T54 WomenDetails T54 10,000 m MenDetails T54 T12 Marathon MenDetails T11T12T46T54 WomenDetails T54 4 × 100 m relay MenDetails T11-13 T42-46T35-38 4 × 400 m relay MenDetails T53/54 Long jump MenDetails T36T37/38T46 T13T42 T20 T44 T12 T11 WomenDetails T11 T20T42 T46T44 T13T12T37/38 Triple jump MenDetails T11 T46 T12 High jump MenDetails T42/44 T13 Shot put MenDetails F12F42 F41 F20 F52/53F46 F32/33 F58F35F11F34 F36F56/57F37F44F38 WomenDetails F58 F55/56/57F35/36 F37F54 F42/44F11 F32/33/34F20 F12F52/53 Discus throw MenDetails F11 F37/38 F54/55/56F44 F51/52/53F35/36F57/58 F42 F12 F41 F32/33/34F46 WomenDetails F11/12 F51/52/53 F54/55/56 F41F35/36 F37 F57/58 Javelin throw MenDetails F57/58F33/34F46 F41 F37/38F11 F54/55/56F44 F42 F12/13F52/53 WomenDetails F46 F52/53F33/34 F57/58 F12/13F54/55/56 Club throw MenDetails F31/32/51 WomenDetails F31/32/51 Ceremonies ● ●
Results Full results
Medal table
The medal table at the end of Day 9 (28 July).
Multiple medallists
161 competitors won multiple medals at the 2013 Championships. The following six athletes won four gold medals or more. Name Country Medal Event 100 metres - T54 200 metres - T54400 metres - T54800 metres - T541,500 metres - T545,000 metres - T54 400 metres - T54 1,500 metres - T545,000 metres - T5410,000 metres - T54Marathon - T54800 metres - T54 100 metres - T52 200 metres - T52400 metres - T52800 metres - T521,500 - T52 100 metres - T53 200 metres - T53400 metres - T534 × 400 m relay - T53/54800 metres - T53 100 metres - T34 200 metres - T34400 metres - T34800 metres - T34 100 metres - T36 200 metres - T36400 metres - T364 × 100 m relay - T35-38
Highlights
Day 1 (20 July) After failing to show up at the final of the T11 5,000m at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Brazil's Odair Santos took the world title, beating fellow South American and Paralympic champion Cristian Valenzuela by over 11 seconds. In the T12 class of the 5,000m, Morocco's El Amin Chentouf set a competition record of 14:32.27. The Ukraine team started the games strongly with three gold medals, Andrii Holivets in the F12 shot put, Andriy Onufriyenko in the T37/38 long jump and Roman Pavlyk who broke the T36 long jump world record with a distance of 5.44m. Maciej Lepiato won the first gold of the Championships for Poland when he broke his own world record in the T44 high jump with a height of 2.13m. Other world records fell in the throwing events when Mohsen Kaedi (Iran) took the F34/35 Javelin while Aled Davies (Great Britain) won the F42 shot put.
Marcel Hug of Switzerland started a strong personal Championship with his first medal of the tournament, the 10,000m gold in the T54 classification, his third consecutive World medal at this distance. Although the team failed to take a gold medal on day one, the USA showed strength in the qualifiers with Tatyana McFadden winning both her T54 heats, setting a personal best in the 200m and a championship record in 5000m. Fellow countryman Jarryd Wallace set a world record of 22.32 in the T44 200m sprint qualifier. Liu Fuliang of China, who took gold in the T46 triple jump and silver in the T42-46 4 × 100 m relay in the London Paralympics, showed his versatility by winning the T46 long jump. Another Paralympic winner to take gold in Lyon was Britain's Hannah Cockroft who won the T34 200m sprint.
Day 2 (21 July) On day two the USA converted their strong qualifying results into medals, taking five golds. Two from Tatyana McFadden, in the T54 200m and 5000m, Jeremy Campbell in the F44 discus, Raymond Martin with a Championship record in the T52 800m and Jarryd Wallace who beat his world record, set the day before, by running 22.08 in the T44 200m. Luis Felipe Gutiérrez won the first gold of the Championship for Cuba taking the T13 long jump, while his compatriot Leonardo Diaz doubled their tally with a world record in F54/55/56 discus throw. Japan's Atsushi Yamamoto gave his country their first top podium finish, in the T42 long jump.
The Ukraine continued their first day success by collecting three more golds, including two wins in the throwing disciplines, Mykola Zhabnyak in the F37/38 discus and Mariia Pomazan in the F35/36, who set a new World record with a distance of 12.35m. The Ukraine's trio of gold medals was completed by Oxana Boturchuk in the T12 200m sprint. Poland saw double success, with golds from Bartosz Tyszkowski in the F41 shot put and Mateusz Michalski on the track, where he set a Championship record in the T12 200ms.
World records were set in the F51/52/53 women's discus throw, set by Britain's Josie Pearson, and in the T37 800m race Michael McKillop of the Republic of Ireland who added the world title to his Paralympic gold. Ireland added to this success when Jason Smyth equaled his own world record in the T13 200m final. World records also fell in the qualifying rounds, with the host nation's own Mandy Francois-Elie recording a time of 28.35s in the T37 200m semi-final. Tunisia's Walid Ktila qualified for the final of the T34 200m with a record time of 27.61s. One of the most significant wins of the day came late in the schedule when Brazil's parasport poster-boy Alan Oliveira secured the T43 200m title by running a world record time of 20.66s.
Day 3 (22 July) Host nation France secured their first gold medal of the Championships when Mandy Francois-Elie won the T37 200m final. Further success from Russia pushes the country into second place on the medal table, with gold medals for five athletes. Of the five gold medal winning athletes, four broke the world record in their discipline: Andrey Vdovin, (100m T37), Evgenii Shvetcov (100m T36), Maria Bogacheva (shot put F54) and Egor Sharov (800m T12). Their fifth winning athlete was Alexey Ashapatov who set a Championship record of 58.39m in the F57/58 discus. Germany also saw one of its athletes break a world record as Sebastian Dietz took the F35/36 in the men's discus.
Algeria continued to build on the achievements set by Samir Nouioua on the first day, with two gold medals in the men's events, Abdellatif Baka in the T13 800m and a world record for Mohamed Berrahal in the F51/52/53 discus. In the two long jump finals of the day Karolina Kucharczyk of Poland recorded a World record of 6.09m in the T20 while Martina Caironi of Italy took the title in the women's T42. Italy added a third gold on day 3 when Oxana Corso won the 100m T35 with a world record time. Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli gave Malaysia their first medal of the competition with a gold in the F20 shot put. Finland also added to their tally with a gold in the T51 100m sprint from Toni Piispanen and a silver from Henry Manni in the T34 200m, high returns from a small but competitive team.