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This is a list of nations, as represented by National Paralympic Committees (NPCs), that have participated in the Summer Paralympic Games between 1960 and 2024. As of the 2024 Games,187 from current NPCs have participated in at least one edition of the Paralympic Games, and athletes from Argentina, Australia, Austria, France, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and United States have ...
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.
The movement has grown dramatically since its early days – for example, the number of athletes participating in the Summer Paralympic Games has increased from 400 athletes in Rome in 1960 to 4,342 athletes from 159 countries in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. [29] Both the Paralympic Summer and Winter Games are recognized on the world stage.
Some 4,400 athletes will participate in the Paralympic Games this summer. Team USA will have 225 athletes participate, among them including the women’s wheelchair basketball team, who won gold ...
A wheelchair basketball game at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of ten disability categories; impaired muscle power, impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency, leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment. [3]
The defending gold medal-winning U.S. men's wheelchair basketball opened the 2024 Paris Paralympics with a win ... the game against Spain during the Paris 2024 Paralympic Summer Games at Bercy ...
It is estimated that more than 100,000 people play wheelchair basketball from recreation to club play and as elite national team members. [4] Wheelchair basketball is included in the Paralympic Games. The Wheelchair Basketball World Championship is played two years after every Paralympic Games.
The men's wheelchair basketball team had its first match of the 2024 Paralympics and it was against Spain. How did they do? When do they play next?