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The United States men's national wheelchair basketball team began in 1955 when the Pam Am Jets brought wheelchair basketball to Europe at the International Stoke Mandville Games, albeit in the form of netball. Shortly following the Pan Am Jets' dominating performance at the International Stoke Mandville Games, wheelchair netball was switched to ...
As of the 2016 Summer Paralympics the United States women's national wheelchair basketball team have won four gold, one silver and three bronze medals. As of the 2014 edition, the team's record at World Championships is two gold and four silver medals. [7]
The United States women's national wheelchair basketball team began in the mid-1960s. The first women's team to compete alongside men in the Paralympic Games was in the inaugural 1968 tournament. A few years later in 1977, a women's wheelchair basketball division was created in the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA). [1]
The defending gold medal-winning U.S. men's wheelchair basketball opened the 2024 Paris Paralympics with a win against Spain on Thursday.
The United States was the co-host of the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville and New York. It also hosted the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta and 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City .
Wheelchair basketball has been contested at the Summer Paralympic Games since the 1960 Summer Paralympics in Rome.. Winning the Paralympics is considered to be the highest honor in international wheelchair basketball, followed by the World Championships of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) for men and women and the respective intercontinental championships.
As a result, Team USA became the first men's wheelchair basketball team ever to win three consecutive gold medals at the Paralympics. [3] He represented the United States at the Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, winning silver medals in 2014 and 2018 and a gold medal at the 2022 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships. [4]
Salazar represented the United States 2022 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships and won a gold medal. [2] [3] In November 2023, he represented the United States at the 2023 Parapan American Games and won a gold medal in wheelchair basketball. As a result, Team USA automatically qualified to compete at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [4]