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The National Wheelchair Basketball League (NWBL) is Australia's premier male wheelchair basketball league. It was established in 1988. [1] The competition seasons in 2020 and 2021 were not completed due to the COVID-19 pandemic with no team declared the winner for either season.
Wheelchair Twin Basketball is a major variant of wheelchair basketball. [16] This version is supposed by the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation, [16] and played in Japan. [17] Twin basketball has a three-point classification system based on the evaluation of the mobility of people with spinal cord injuries. In this ...
Australia has competed at every men's wheelchair basketball tournament at the Paralympic Games except 1964. [1] [2] [3] Kevin Coombs was Australia's first captain of the men's wheelchair basketball team. The Rollers qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics by winning the 2015 Asia Oceania Qualifying Tournament and finished sixth. [4]
This classification is for wheelchair basketball. [1] Classification for the sport is done by the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. [2] Classification is extremely important in wheelchair basketball because when players' point totals are added together, they cannot exceed fourteen points per team on the court at any time. [3]
During rehabilitation, he was introduced to wheelchair basketball, [2] and played his first game in a social competition on the Gold Coast. [3] He then joined the Queensland Spinning Bullets the National Wheelchair Basketball League (NWBL) as a 1.5 point player, and played his first game with the national team, the Rollers, in November 2014. [3]
Pages in category "Australian men's wheelchair basketball players" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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Tom Kyle (born 15 June 1959) is an Australian wheelchair basketball coach who coaches the Queensland Spinning Bullets and the Australian women's national wheelchair basketball team. He was assistant coach of the Australian men's national wheelchair basketball team from 2009 to 2013, during which time it won gold at the IWBF Wheelchair ...