B1 is a medical-based Paralympic classification for blind sport. Athletes in this classification are totally or almost totally blind. It is used by a number of blind sports including blind tennis, para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, blind cricket, blind golf, five-a-side football, goalball and judo. Some other sports, including adaptive rowing, athletics and swimming, have equivalents to this class.
Australia's Bryce Lindores is a B1 classified athlete
S11 race at the 2012 Paralympics: swimmers being tapped to show they should turn
Paralympic alpine skiing is an adaptation of alpine skiing for athletes with a disability. The sport evolved from the efforts of disabled veterans in Germany and Austria during and after the Second World War. The sport is governed by the International Paralympic Committee Sports Committee. The primary equipment used includes outrigger skis, sit-skis, and mono-skis. Para-alpine skiing disciplines include the downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom, super combined, and snowboard.
Talan Skeels-Piggins from Great Britain in the first run for the men's slalom (sitting), at the Winter Paralympics 2010 in Vancouver, Canada.
Australian Paralympian Michael Milton at the 1988 Innsbruck Winter Games.
A disabled veteran uses a sit ski at Vail, Colorado.
A Norwegian skier in the downhill at the 1988 Winter Paralympics
