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Wheelchair basketball is a style of basketball played using a sports wheelchair. [1] The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) is the governing body for this sport. [ 2 ] It is recognized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) as the sole competent authority in wheelchair basketball worldwide.
The defending gold medal-winning U.S. men's wheelchair basketball opened the 2024 Paris Paralympics with a win against Spain on Thursday. ... Spain gave us some really good play for our first game
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 ...
Following high school, Warburton enrolled at Wigan and Leigh College to study sports while also competing internationally. He competed with Great Britain at the 2014 Under-22 Wheelchair Basketball European Championships, helping them win a gold medal and individually being named the Disabled Sports Achiever of the Year. [6]
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]
PARIS — Success has followed Steve Serio throughout his U.S. Paralympic career. He’s earned two gold medals and a bronze over his four Paralympic Games playing for the wheelchair basketball team.
Matt Scott was born in Detroit, Michigan, where he began playing wheelchair basketball with the Sterling Heights Challengers in the NWBA Junior Division. [1] As a high schooler, he was on the gold medal-winning US team at the 2007 Parapan American Games in Brazil, where he was coached by Tracy Chynoweth, head coach of University of Wisconsin-Whitewater's college wheelchair basketball team.
He began playing wheelchair basketball at the age of 15 when he was inspired by a team that came to his school and introduced him to wheelchair sports. Since then, Peter has competed in the 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Paralympic Games , winning the gold medal for wheelchair basketball for three of those years.