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The
SPORTS FEDERATION FOR THE DISABLED OF SLOVENIA of Slovenia as
the organiser of competitive and top level sports for the
disabled has a programme of national championships and
participation in international competitions that includes many
different events. The events are adapted for athletes with these
disabilities: physically impaired, deaf, blind and partially
sighted and mentally impaired and different events have
different approaches to such adaptation. The rules have been
adapted as well. Some of the sports are the same as for the
non-disabled, some have been adapted and others have been
developed especially for the disabled and are only found as
sports for the disabled.
Within
the different sports disabled athletes are divided into several
groups or categories according to their disability by observing
the principle of functionality so that each group consists of
competitors with similar physical, sensory or mental abilities.
Consequently,
a discipline such as the 100 meters race in athletics can have
as many as 14 different categories. The organisers therefore
have many additional tasks, making this type of competitions
more complex. If not enough athletes entered in one of the
disciplines, categories either merge or a competition for the
individual category is not carried out. According to the rules
of the Paralympic Games at least 6 competitors from at least 4
different countries must compete, otherwise the discipline is
excluded from the competition programme.
Slovenian
disabled athletes compete on the national and international
level in the following disciplines:
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