Paralympic team

An Post is a supporter of the Irish Paracycling team since 2007, during which time the squad has achieved success at World Championship level and the London 2012 Paralympics.  The squad train and compete in Ireland and abroad.  The team participate against the best in the sport across a variety of disciplines including hand-cycling, tandem track and road cycling and individual events.

Paralympic Cycling explained

Cycling is open to amputee, les autre, cerebral palsy and visually impaired athletes who compete in individual road race and track events.

Classification is split into divisions 2, 3 and 4 for athletes with cerebral palsy, athletes in division two being the most severely handicapped progressing to division 4 which includes physically more able athletes.

Visually impaired athletes compete together with no separate classification system. They ride in tandem with a sighted guide.

Amputee, Spinal Cord Injury and Les Autre competitors compete within the classification groupings

• LC1 - essentially for riders with upper limb disabilities
• LC2 - essentially for riders with disabilities in one leg but who are able to pedal normally
• LC3 - essentially for riders with a handicap in one lower limb who will usually pedal with one leg only
• LC4 for riders with disabilities affecting both legs.