Athletics at the 2012 Summer Paralympics T/F42–46

Athletics at the XIV Paralympic Games
Paralympic Athletics
Venue	Olympic Stadium The Mall
Dates	31 August – 9 September 2012
Competitors	1100 (740 men, 360 women)

Athletics at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Classification
T/F11–13: Blind and visually impaired
T/F20: Intellectual disability
T/F31–38: Cerebral palsy
F40: Les Autres
: Amputees
T/F51–58: Spinal cord disability
Men T/F42–46
Track
100 m		T42		T44		T46
200 m		T42		T44		T46
400 m				T44		T46
800 m						T46
1500 m						T46
4×100 m relay			T42-46
Road
Marathon						T46
Field
Long jump			F42-44			F46
Triple jump						F46
High jump		F42				F46
Shot put			F42-44			F46
Discus throw		F42		F44
Javelin throw		F42		F44
Women T/F42–46
Track
100 m		T42		T44		T46
200 m				T44		T46
400 m						T46
Field
Long jump			F42-44			F46
Shot put			F42-44
Javelin throw						F46

Athletics events at the 2012 Summer Paralympics were held in the Olympic Stadium and in The Mall in London, United Kingdom, from 31 August to 9 September 2012.^[1] 31 events were staged for amputee athletes.

Athletes were given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classification system allowed athletes to compete against others with a similar level of function.

The athletics classifications are:

• 11–13: Blind (11) and visually impaired (12, 13) athletes
• 20: Athletes with an intellectual disability
• 31–38: Athletes with cerebral palsy
• 40: Les Autres (others) (including people with dwarfism)
• 42–46: Amputees
• 51–58: Athletes with a spinal cord disability

The class numbers were given prefixes of "T" and "F" for track and field events, respectively.

Event	Classification	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m	T42	Heinrich Popow  Germany	Scott Reardon  Australia	Wojtek Czyz  Germany
	T44	Jonnie Peacock  Great Britain	Richard Browne  United States	Arnu Fourie  South Africa
	T46	Zhao Xu  China	Raciel Gonzalez Isidoria  Cuba	Ola Abidogun  Great Britain
200 m	T42	Richard Whitehead  Great Britain	Shaquille Vance  United States	Heinrich Popow  Germany
	T44	Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira  Brazil	Oscar Pistorius  South Africa	Blake Leeper  United States
	T46	Yohansson Nascimento  Brazil	Raciel Gonzalez Isidoria  Cuba	Simon Patmore  Australia
400 m	T44	Oscar Pistorius  South Africa	Blake Leeper  United States	David Prince  United States
	T46	Gunther Matzinger  Austria	Yohansson Nascimento  Brazil	P Uggl Dena Pathirannehelag  Sri Lanka
800 m	T46	Gunther Matzinger  Austria	Samir Nouioua  Algeria	Abraham Tarbei  Kenya
1500 m	T46	Abraham Tarbei  Kenya	Wondiye Fikre Indelbu  Ethiopia	Samir Nouioua  Algeria
4 × 100 m relay	T42/T46	South Africa (RSA) Samkelo Radebe Zivan Smith Arnu Fourie Oscar Pistorius	China (CHN) Liu Zhiming Liu Fuliang Xie Hexing Zhao Xu	Germany (GER) Markus Rehm Heinrich Popow David Behre Wojtek Czyz
Marathon	T46	Tito Sena  Brazil	Abderrahman Ait Khamouch  Spain	Frederic van den Heede  Belgium
Long jump	F42/44	Markus Rehm  Germany	Wojtek Czyz  Germany	Daniel Jorgensen  Denmark
	F46	Liu Fuliang  China	Arnaud Assoumani  France	Huseyn Hasanov  Azerbaijan
Triple jump	F46	Liu Fuliang  China	Arnaud Assoumani  France	Aliaksandr Subota  Belarus
High jump	F42	Iliesa Delana  Fiji	Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda  India	Lukasz Mamczarz  Poland
	F46	Maciej Lepiato  Poland	Jeff Skiba  United States	Chen Hongjie  China
Shot put	F42/44	Jackie Christiansen  Denmark	Darko Kralj  Croatia	Aled Davies  Great Britain
	F46	Nikita Prokhorov  Russia	Hou Zhanbiao  China	Tomasz Rebisz  Poland
Discus throw	F42	Aled Davies  Great Britain	Mehrdad Karam Zadeh  Iran	Wang Lezheng  China
	F44	Jeremy Campbell  United States	Dan Greaves  Great Britain	Farzad Sepahvand  Iran

Event	Classification	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m	T42	Martina Caironi  Italy	Kelly Cartwright  Australia	Jana Schmidt  Germany
	T44	Marie-Amelie le Fur  France	Marlou van Rhijn  Netherlands	April Holmes  United States
	T46	Yunidis Castillo  Cuba	Nikol Rodomakina  Russia	Wang Yanping  China
200 m	T44	Marlou van Rhijn  Netherlands	Marie-Amelie le Fur  France	Katrin Green  Germany
	T46	Yunidis Castillo  Cuba	Alicja Fiodorow  Poland	Anrune Liebenberg  South Africa
400 m	T46	Yunidis Castillo  Cuba	Anrune Liebenberg  South Africa	Alicja Fiodorow  Poland
Long jump	F42/44	Kelly Cartwright  Australia	Stefanie Reid  Great Britain	Marie-Amelie le Fur  France
	F46	Nikol Rodomakina  Russia	Carlee Beattie  Australia	Ouyang Jingling  China
Shot put	F42/44	Yao Juan  China	Yang Yue  China	Michaela Floeth  Germany
Javelin throw	F46	Katarzyna Piekart  Poland	Nataliya Gudkova  Russia	Madeleine Hogan  Australia

• Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics

• International Paralympic Committee - Athletics classification regulations