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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]
The 2024 Summer Paralympics women's tournament in Paris began on 29 August and ended on 8 September 2024. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The matches were played at the Bercy Arena . [ 4 ] This was the fifteenth edition of the tournament since the tournament debut at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv.
United States women'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 women's wheelchair basketball tournament of the 2024 Summer Paralympics.
The IWBF World Wheelchair Basketball Championship (World Championships from 1973 to 2002 (2006) known as Gold Cup) is an international wheelchair basketball competition contested by the men's and the women's national teams of the members of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (), the sport's global governing body.
The 2022 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships were held at the Dubai World Trade Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 8 to 20 June 2023. Both men's and women's tournaments have been played, with 12 women's and 16 men's teams competing, representing 20 different nations. Each team selected 12 players for the tournament.
This division is for women attending a university that has a sponsored team. Most of the time, but not always, a college that has a women's wheelchair basketball team also has a men's wheelchair team. The Intercollegiate Women's Division features some of the best college level women athletes. The ball used is the standard women's size basketball.
Wheelchair basketball at the XIV Paralympic Games Venue Basketball Arena, North Greenwich Arena Dates 30 August – 8 September 2012 Competitors 264 (12 men and 10 women teams) Medalists Canada (CAN) (men) Germany (GER) (women) Australia (AUS) (men) Australia (AUS) (women) United States (USA) (men) Netherlands (NED) (women) ← 2008 2016 → Wheelchair basketball at the 2012 Summer Paralympics ...
National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) is composed of 181 wheelchair basketball teams within twenty-two conferences. Founded in 1949 by Timothy Nugent, the NWBA today consists of men's, women's, intercollegiate, and youth teams throughout the United States and Canada. The league is made up of various divisions for athletes ranging ...