Brian Bell (born February 24, 1989) is an American

wheelchair basketball Wheelchair basketball is basketball played by people with varying physical disabilities that disqualify them from playing a non-disabled sport. These include spina bifida, birth defects, cerebral palsy, paralysis due to accident, amputations (of ...

player and a member of the

United States men's national wheelchair basketball team The United States men's national wheelchair basketball team began in 1955 when the Pam Am Jets brought wheelchair basketball to Europe at the International Stoke Mandville Games, albeit in the form of netball. Shortly following the Pan Am Jets' do ...

Career

Bell has represented the United States in

Wheelchair basketball at the Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball has been contested at the Summer Paralympics since the 1960 Summer Paralympics in Rome. Winning the Paralympics is considered to be the highest honour in international wheelchair basketball, followed by the World Champions ...

twice, winning gold medals in

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses duri ...

and

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in t ...

References

1989 births Living people American men's wheelchair basketball players Medalists at the 2015 Parapan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Parapan American Games Paralympic wheelchair basketball players of the United States Wheelchair basketball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball Paralympic gold medalists for the United States Basketball players from Birmingham, Alabama 21st-century American people {{US-Paralympic-medalist-stub