Also, their fencing arm is fully functional. Fencers in this sport class have lower limb deficiency or paraplegia, for example. Not all of fencers in this category use a wheelchair in their daily ...

The wheelchair fencing competition will be held from Tuesday, Sept. 3 to Saturday, Sept. 7 during the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. Athletes’ wheelchairs remain in a fixed position. Fencers cannot move ...

Wheelchair fencing was developed by Sir Ludwig Guttmann at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital and was introduced to the world at the Rome 1960 Paralympic Games. Men and women with amputations, spinal-cord ...

PARIS (AP) — The wheelchair fencing competition at the Paralympic Games is in full swing, taking place under the prestigious ...

The big picture: Wheelchair fencing, also called parafencing, has been around since the 1960s, but it's gaining steam in the U.S, with USA Fencing hoping to expand its program before the L.A ...

Barely 16 years old, Catherine “Cat” Bouwkamp is the top-ranked female wheelchair fencer in the United States in all three blades of fencing: foil, epee, and sabre. She is currently the only ...

He debuted at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics, and bagged a total of four gold medals in wheelchair fencing. At the time, no Hong Kong Paralympian had ever won four gold medals in a single year.

One of the events is wheelchair fencing. Anri Sakurai is a wheelchair fencer vying to take part in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. Sakurai was a long-distance runner in high school. She aspired to be ...

Barely 16 years old, Catherine “Cat” Bouwkamp is the top-ranked female wheelchair fencer in the United States in all three blades of fencing: foil, epee, and sabre. She is currently the only ...

Coutya is aiming to compete at his third Paralympics in Paris Britain's Dimitri Coutya and Piers Gilliver have both claimed Epee gold at the European Wheelchair Fencing Championships in Paris.

in the new training centre A new dedicated training facility for the Great Britain wheelchair fencing squad has been opened. The fencing centre, based at the University of Bath, also includes a ...