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B3 is a disability sport classification for people who have partial vision.
The change in winter disability sport classification towards a more formal functional classification system happened more quickly as a result of changes being made in wheelchair basketball classification that started in 1983.
A typical sport classification scheme considered that each sport has dynamic and static exercise components [ 20, 21].
304 athletes were enrolled and divided into three subgroups according to a typical sport classification in terms of the maximal oxygen uptake (MaxO2_low, MaxO2_middle and MaxO2_high groups) or the maximal muscular voluntary contraction (MMVC_low, MMVC_middle, and MMVC_high groups).
The participants with visual impairment were all adolescent pupils at a vocational school for the blind in Laski (Poland), categorized for total or legal blindness according to the US Association for Blind Athletes USABAA) sport classification: blind (B1s; 22) and low vision (B3s; 10).
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Ruiz and Watt (2014) conducted a MANOVA considering sports classification as an independent variable (8 levels: athletics, combat sports, aquatics, transition sports, cycling, invasion contact ballgames, invasion non-contact ballgames, and non-invasion ballgames) and SIQ's five subscales as dependent variables.
More recently, these authors have shown a decreasing relationship between peak power output achieved in a Wingate test and sporting classification [ 9].
According to the sports classification scheme, all 304 athletes in this study were categorized by the levels of MaxO2 (low, middle, and high) and MMVC (low, middle, and high).
Four-time Paralympic swimming champion Marc Woods has claimed that the sport's classification system is "the major stumbling block on credibility".
Britain's double Paralympic archery champion Danielle Brown has been ruled out of future international Para-Archery events after a change in the sport's classification procedures.
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