“…Since the first 1960 Paralympic Games, an increasing number of athletes with physical, visual or intellectual impairments have participated to elite para-athletic competitions ( Dyer, 2015b ; Fagher et al, 2016 ). Scientific and technological progress, such as prosthetic equipment, contributed to para-athletic promotion and the improvement of their performances ( Lepers et al, 2012 ; Dyer, 2015b ; Grobler et al, 2015 ). Indeed, beyond the impairment type, para-athletic performance is a complex process including both intrinsic parameters such as genetics, morphology (height and mass) or age and extrinsic factors such as environmental conditions (temperature, humidity, pollution), training methods, nutrition or technology ( Berthelot et al, 2015 ; Blauwet et al, 2016 ).…”