“…This success would imply that the elite sport structure developed in the context of Olympic sport should form the model for nations to achieve international parasport success. This assumption, however, is in lieu of empirical research, research published in an elite parasport context concentrating on classification Vanlandewijck, 2011, Beckman, Newcombe andVanlandewijck, 2014), the supercrip notion (Silva and Howe,2012), media coverage , psychological factors , coaching (Nicholls, James, Bryant andWells 2018, Alexander, 2017), home advantage and science and technological factors, essentially in wheelchair racing (Cooper, Cooper, and Susmarski, 2018;Connick, Beckman, Vanlandewijck, Malone, Blomqvist, and Tweedy, 2018).This study will provide empirical research in the context of international parasport success.…”