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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.
The defending gold medal-winning U.S. men's wheelchair basketball opened the 2024 Paris Paralympics with a win against Spain on Thursday.
Tabulated below are the performance of the top-3 finish places on the medal table and overall rankings for this teams on the Summer Paralympics and Winter Paralympics, based on individual Games medals tables.
The 2024 Paralympics was the seventeenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities. The games were held in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September 2024. There were 549 medal events. Mauritius, Nepal and the Refugee Paralympic Team won their first Paralympic medals.
The table is pre-sorted by the name of each Paralympic Committee, but can be displayed as sorted by any other column, such as the total number of gold medals or total number of overall medals. To sort by gold, silver, and then bronze (as used unofficially by the IPC and by most broadcasters outside the US) sort first by the bronze column, then ...
The same occurred in the following 1964 Tokyo Paralympic Games, as the United States Men's National Wheelchair Basketball Team claimed both gold medals. [ 2 ] The success of the United States Men's National Wheelchair Basketball Team has continued since those initial Paralympic Games, although the team had not won gold medals since 1988 and ...
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. There was a reduced number of teams participating; eight teams in each tournament, four fewer men's teams and two fewer women's teams than in the previous Games. [1]
United States men's team qualified to compete by virtue of the gold medal results at the 2023 Parapan American Games in Santiago, Chile. Team roster The following is the United States roster in the men's wheelchair basketball tournament of the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [12] [13]