Athletics at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Men's marathon T12

High school (ages 12+)
Sports & Games

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/athletics-at-the-2024-summer-paralympics-men-s-marathon-t12

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the event?Men's Marathon T12, 2024 Summer Paralympics, Paris
2. What is the athlete-guide connection?Tethered running via a short rope or cord for communication and navigation
3. What does T12 mean in Paralympic marathon?T12 is a class for runners with serious vision problems, like seeing less than 2/60 or a very small field of view. They still run the full marathon distance of 42.195 kilometers.
4. How do the runners see the track if they can't see well?They run with a sighted guide who is tied to them with a short rope. The guide tells them where turns and bumps are by running beside them.

Visual Acuity: A measure of the sharpness and clarity of vision, often expressed as a fraction.
Visual Field: The entire area that can be seen at one time without moving the eyes.
Proprioception: The sense of the relative position of one's own parts of the body and strength of effort being employed in movement.