The IPC Athletics World Championships is an event organized by the International Paralympic Committee

International Paralympic Committee

The International Paralympic Committee is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement. The IPC organizes the Paralympic Games and functions as the international federation for nine sports...

 (IPC). Athletes with a physical disability

Physical disability

A physical disability is any impairment which limits the physical function of one or more limbs or fine or gross motor ability. Other physical disabilities include impairments which limit other facets of daily living, such as respiratory disorders and epilepsy....

 compete, and in a few events athletes with an intellectual disability

Intellectual disability

Intellectual disability is a broad concept encompassing various intellectual deficits, including mental retardation , deficits too mild to properly qualify as MR, various specific conditions , and problems acquired later in life through acquired brain injuries or neurodegenerative diseases like...

 compete. Originally, it was organised every four years, but this changed in 2011, and it is since organised biennially.

The first IPC Athletics World Championships was held in Berlin, Germany in 1994.

Championships

Edition	Year	City	Country	Date	Venue	No. of Events	No. of Athletes
1st	1994	Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...		22 Jul – 31 Jul	Berlin Olympiastadion		1154
2nd	1998	Birmingham Birmingham Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...		Aug – Aug	Alexander Stadium Alexander Stadium Alexander Stadium is an international athletics stadium located within Perry Park in Perry Barr, Birmingham, England, at . It has staged the Amateur Athletics Association Championships, and was the venue of the 1998 Disability World Athletics Championships...		over 1000
3rd	2002	Lille Lille Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...		20 Jul – 28 Jul	Stadium Nord Lille Métropole
4th	2006	Assen Assen Assen is a municipality and a city in the north eastern Netherlands, capital of the province of Drenthe. It received city rights in 1809. Assen's main claim to fame is the TT Circuit Assen the motorcycle racing circuit, where on the last Saturday in June the Dutch TT is run...		2 Sep – 10 Sep	De Smelt De Smelt De Bonte Wever is a sports arena located in Assen, Netherlands.De venue opened in the 1970s with a 400-meter speed skating track. Later an ice hockey hall was added. In the early 1990s the city of Assen became the owner of the sports complex. The speed skating track became semi-indoors and a...		1200
5th	2011	Christchurch Christchurch Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...		21 Jan – 30 Jan	Queen Elizabeth II Park Queen Elizabeth II Park Queen Elizabeth II Park is a multi-use stadium in Christchurch, New Zealand. The stadium has a capacity of 25,000 people. It was built in 1973, to host the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in which a temporary 15000 seat western stand was erected for the event taking capacity to 35000...	213	1060
6th	2013
7th	2015

Classification

• F = field athletes
• T = track athletes
• P = pentathlon

• 11-13 - visually impaired, compete with a sighted guide
  Sighted guide
  A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....
  
  
• 20 - intellectual disability
• 40 - dwarfism
• 31-38 - cerebral palsy
  Cerebral palsy
  Cerebral palsy is an umbrella term encompassing a group of non-progressive, non-contagious motor conditions that cause physical disability in human development, chiefly in the various areas of body movement....
  
  
• 41-46 - amputation
  Amputation
  Amputation is the removal of a body extremity by trauma, prolonged constriction, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on individuals as a preventative surgery for...
  
  , others
• 51-58 - wheelchair athletes

External links

• IPC Athletics