ArticleFrontiers in sports and active living2023
Classification in Para skiing: do better performing skiers have better visual functions?
Article in Frontiers in sports and active living, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Guiding Evidence-Based Classification in Para Sporting Populations: A Systematic Review of Impairment Measures and Activity Limitations.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Pooled it
- The influence of lateral dominance on bilateral performance in alpine skiers.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- How People With Vision Impairment Use Their Gaze to Hit a Ball.Translational vision science & technology · 2025Article
- The importance of abilities in inclusive experiences from the perspective of people with visual impairments: the example of alpine skiing.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Currently, Paralympic skiers with vision impairment are allocated to classes based only on their better eye static visual acuity and visual field diameter. These studies were conducted to investigate whether a broad range of visual functions were different among groups of skiers with different levels of skiing performance. Methods: Static and dynamic visual acuities, contrast sensitivity, light and glare sensitivity, glare recovery, motion perception, and visual field were assessed binocularly in elite Para nordic ( Results: Skiers in the best performing Para nordic clusters (1 and 2) had better static visual acuities ( Discussion: Clusters with better performing skiers appear to have better visual function in both sports. The results of this study would suggest that Para nordic and Para alpine skiers with light perception or no light perception vision should be in one class and that the skiers with quantifiable static VA should be in a different class.
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