Sighted guide

A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.

Paralympic Games
At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.

Rules are according to the International Blind Sports Association (IBSA) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

The sighted guides are such a close and essential part of the competition, that the athlete with a visual impairment and the guide are considered a team, and both athletes are medal candidates.

Winter
At the Winter Paralympics there are three classifications of athletes with a visual impairment: A sighted guide is required for B1 and B2, and optional for B3.
 * B1 (no useful vision)
 * B2 (minimal useful vision)
 * B3 (some useful vision).

Nordic skiing: The guide can lead, follow, or ski next to the athlete with a visual impairment. The guide assists with voice instruction only. No physical contact allowed.

Alpine skiing: The start must have an adequate space for the guide.
 * Combined
 * Downhill
 * Giant slalom
 * Slalom
 * Super-G

Summer
Athletics: In athletics the sighted guides can win a medal.

Cycling: Pilot Equestrian: Football 5-a-side: Triathlon: