Equestrian

• Equestrian is open to all disabilityA Disability is generally a condition either caused by accident, trauma, genetics or disease, which may restrict a person's mental processes, senses or mobility. categories.
• Riders are divided into four grades.
• Riders compete only in dressage.
• Equestrian became a Paralympic Games sport in Atlanta in 1996.

ClassificationAthletes are classified by classifiers into classes by their ability to function. The aim is to ensure that athletes of similar ability compete against one another.

• Grade 1: Severely disabled riders with cerebral palsyA disorder of movement and posture due to damage to an area of the brain that controls and coordinates muscle tone, reflexes, posture and movement. "Cerebral" mean brain-centred; "palsy" is a lack of muscle control., les autresis French for 'others'. It is a term used to describe athletes with a range of conditions which result in locomotor disorders that do not fit the traditional classification systems of the established disability group, eg dwarfism, polio, MS and spinal cordcord of nerve tissue extending through the spinal canal of the spinal column. injuryharm or damage that it done.
• Grade 2: Athletes with reasonable balance and abdominal control including amputees
• Grade 3: Athletes with good balance, leg movement and coordination including blind athletes
• Grade 4: AmbulantAble to walk independently athletes (those able to walk independently) with either impaired vision or impaired arm or leg function