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Snowshoeing
Snowshoeing is very similar to athletics and shares the same excellent
cardiovascular workout as cross country skiing. Special Olympics
Snowshoeing offers events for athletes of every ability level. Individual
events offered in snowshoeing range from the 100 meter races to the 5K. In
addition to these traditional events, Special Olympics offers events for
lower ability level athletes to train and compete in basic snowshoeing
skills. The development of these key skills is necessary prior to
advancing to longer competitive events.
Special Olympics snowshoeing has training and competition opportunities
for individual and teams of Special Olympics athletes; as well as Special
Olympics Unified SportsŪ teams.
Special Olympics Unified Sports is a program that
combines Special Olympics athletes and athletes without intellectual
disabilities (partners) on sports teams for training and competition. In
Unified Sports snowshoeing, relay teams ar made up of two Special Olympics
athletes and two Unified Sport partners. The competitor order in the relay
is up to the decision of the coach..
As in all Special Olympics sports, athletes are grouped in competition
divisions according to ability level, age and gender.
Snowshoeing Facts
- Special Olympics snowshoeing was inaugurated at the 1997 Special
Olympics World Winter Games in Toronto, Canada.
- The 2001 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Anchorage, Alaska,
USA, hosted 104 athletes from seven countries in snowshoeing.
- Snowshoeing will be contested at the 2005 Special Olympics World
Winter Games in Nagano, Japan.
- Today 3,163 Special Olympics athletes from 26 Programs compete in
snowshoeing.
 Snowshoeing
Events
- 100 Meter Race
- 200 Meter Race
- 400 Meter Race
- 800 Meter Race
- 1600 Meter Race
- 5K Race
- 10K Race
- 4 x 100M Special Olympics Relay Race
- 4 x 400M Special Olympics Relay Race
- 4 x 100M Unified Sports Relay Race
- 4 x 400M Unified Sports Relay Race
The following events provide meaningful
competition for those athletes not yet able to compete in the other
events/distances offered.
- 25 Meter Race
- 50 Meter Race
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