The Paralympic Games held in Rio was impressively successful and more than 500 world records/paralympic records have been reset in almost each section of sports.
Here is a roundup of impressive record breakers participating visual impairment classes and their achievements of the tournament, all took place in athletics and swimming.
Class identification:
B1,B2,B3 are a medical-based Paralympic classification for blind sport.
The classification system for blind and vision impaired sport often has comparable classes in other sports:
1. S11, SB11, SM11 are disability swimming classifications
S represents Freestyle, Backstroke and Butterfly strokes. SB means breaststroke. SM means individual medley.
2. T11/F11, T12/F12, T13/F13 are disability athletics classifications
T for Track, and F for Field.
B1=T11/F11=S11, SB11, SM11
B2=T12/F12=S12, SB12, SM12
B3=T13/F13=S13, SB13, SM13
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