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PARIS − A determined United States wheelchair rugby team advanced to the gold-medal game at the 2024 Paralympics after defeating rival Great Britain 50-43 Sunday in the semifinals.
World Wheelchair Rugby Championships is an international wheelchair rugby competition contested by the national teams of the members of World Wheelchair Rugby , the sport's global governing body. The first Wheelchair Rugby World Championships was held in Notwil, Switzerland in 1995.
Wheelchair rugby (originally murderball, and known as quad rugby in the United States) is a team sport for athletes with a disability.It is practiced in over twenty-five countries around the world and is a summer Paralympic sport.
The RFL Wheelchair Championship is the second highest level of wheelchair rugby league in England and Wales, with teams promoted to the RFL Wheelchair Super League providing certain criteria is met. The Wheelchair Championship was founded in 2020, one year after the Super League, following attempts to better organise the higher levels of the sport.
Japan won gold by defeating Team USA 48-41 in the wheelchair rugby final at the 2024 Paralympics on Monday.
PARIS — U.S. wheelchair rugby team captain Chuck Aoki has been playing on the international stage since 2009. He was just 21 years old at his first Paralympic Games.
Wheelchair rugby competitions at the 2023 Parapan American Games in Santiago, Chile were held at the Training Center for Collective Sport from 18 to 23 November 2023. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The winner of the competition was automatically qualified to the 2024 Summer Paralympics .
The United States national wheelchair rugby team represents the United States in international wheelchair rugby. The USA is the most successful team in international competition, winning medals in all five Paralympic tournaments it has entered, coming away with two golds.