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Wheelchair Basketball At The 2012 Summer Paralympics – Women's Tournament
The women's tournament in wheelchair basketball at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was held from 30 August to 7 September. Competitions were held at the newly built Basketball Arena (London), Basketball Arena, which seated 10,000 spectators, and The O2 Arena (London), North Greenwich Arena (The O2 Arena renamed during the Games because of a no-commercialisation policy on arena names). 33 matches were played, 20 in the preliminary round, and 13 in the classification and medal rounds. Germany women's national wheelchair basketball team, Germany beat Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, Australia in the final, while the Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team, Netherlands beat defending champions United States women's national wheelchair basketball team, United States in the match for the bronze medal. Calendar Group stage Group A ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basketball Arena (London)
The Basketball Arena for the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Paralympics was located in the Olympic Park in Stratford, London. The arena was designed to be fully recyclable, and was dismantled in January 2013, the seating was sold to Barnet owner Tony Kleanthous to be used in the construction of The Hive Stadium. History London's Olympic bid proposed that there would be four arenas in the Olympic Park, but the revised masterplan published in 2006 reduced this to three, with the volleyball matches being moved to Earls Court Exhibition Centre. The fencing arena was also cancelled, and the fencing took place at ExCeL. The Basketball Arena had 12,000 seats for Olympic basketball and the semi-finals and finals of Olympic handball, and 10,000 for Paralympic wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby. The arena was also used as a holding area for athletes during the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the games. Concept designs by Wilkinson Eyre Architects & KSS Design Gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
