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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.
Great Britain vs Canada. Wheelchair basketball at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France was hosted between 29 August to 8 September 2024. It featured men's and women's tournaments.
The defending gold medal-winning U.S. men's wheelchair basketball opened the 2024 Paris Paralympics with a win against Spain on Thursday.
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 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?
In 1960 the inaugural Rome Paralympic Games included wheelchair basketball as one of its initial events. [1] During this inaugural 1960 Paralympic Games the wheelchair basketball competition was divided into two constructs: Class A for athletes with complete lesions, and Class B for those with incomplete lesions.
The following is the United States roster in the women's wheelchair basketball tournament of the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] United States women's national wheelchair basketball team - 2024 Summer Paralympics roster
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]