• Table Tennis is open to all athletes with a physical 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..
• There are standing and wheelchairThis refers to a group of athletes with a disability who are eligible to compete in wheelchair events. Some of the conditions resulting in eligibility into wheelchair events are: paraplegia, quadriplegia, spina bifida, poliomyelitis, amputee, cerebral palsy. events.
• There are individual and team events.
• Table Tennis has been included since Rome in 1960.

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.

1-5: Athletes competing from a wheelchair

6-10: AmbulantAble to walk independently athletes

11: Athletes with an intellectual disabilityIndividuals who have limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behaviour.

*The lower the number the more severe the disability.

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