SPORTS

Sport is a great way for people with sight loss to become fully integrated in society. Besides providing the essentials of physical fitness and an escape from daily routines, it offers a chance to meet and enjoy the company of fully sighted people.

Over the years, numerous programmes have been successfully undertaken promoting sport for people with sight loss.

Indoor Sports

Chess
Football
Judo
Powerlifting
Shooting
Showdown
Swimming
Ten-pin Bowling
Torboll

Outdoor Sports

Alpine Skiing
Athletics
Blind Archery
Blind Sailing
Beep Baseball
Cricket
Goalball
Golf
Tandem Cycling

Hall of Fame

Visit our Hall of Fame to view achievements of sportspersons who have excelled in their fields.

Sight classification system

As sport for visually impaired people has developed, so has the need for a sight classification system applicable at both national and international levels. The first serious attempt at such classification was made by the International Blind Sports Association (I.B.S.A.) in 1981 with its three-class system: B1, B2 and B3.

• B1 is defined as ranging from total blindness to the ability to perceive light but the inability to recognise shapes
• B2 is defined as from the ability to recognize shapes to an acuity of 2/60 and/or a field of less than 5 degrees
• B3 is defined as from an acuity of 2/60 and/or a field of 5 degrees to an acuity of 6/60 and/or a field of less than 20 degrees

Recently, some national sports, have introduced the B4 category, defined as extending from an acuity of 6/60 to one of 6/24 in the best eye and with the best correction. [An acuity of 6/24 is defined as the ability to read the top three lines of the optician's chart at an effective distance of 6 metres].