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Wheelchair basketball has been contested at the
Summer Paralympic Games The Summer Paralympics, also known as the Games of the Paralympiad, are an international multi-sport event where athletes with physical disabilities compete. This includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and cerebr ...
since the 1960 Summer Paralympics in
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. 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.


Events

In the first two Paralympic games, there were two men's events (Class A and B). Since the Paralympic games of 1968, there are two events, a men's event and a women's event. Current events *Men's team *Women's team


Qualification

* 1960 - 1988 : No Qualification * 1992 - Ongoing: World and Zonal Qualification


Medalists

Medal winning athletes for every Summer Games since 1960 are as follows:


Men's team


Class A


Class B


Men's team


Women's team


Medals


Men (Class A & Class B) (1960–1964)


Men (1968–2024)


Women (1968–2020)


Total (1960–2020)


Nations


1960–1964


Men Class A


Men Class B


1968–Ongoing


Men

https://www.wheelchairbasketball.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Paralympic-Games-Results-1960-2012.pdf # 1968: 13 Teams # 1972: Division I 9 Teams / Division II 10 Teams # 1976: 21 Teams # 1980: 17 Teams # 1984: 18 Teams # 1988: 17 Teams # 1992: 12 Teams # 1996: 12 Teams # 2000: 12 Teams # 2004: 12 Teams # 2008: 12 Teams # 2012: 12 Teams # 2016: 12 Teams # 2020: 12 Teams # 2024: 8 Teams


Women


See also

* Basketball at the Summer Olympics * Basketball ID at the Summer Paralympics * Wheelchair Basketball World Championship


External links


Ranking

* https://www.wheelchairbasketball.ca/events/paralympic-games/past-results/ * https://www.wheelchairbasketball.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Paralympic-Games-Results-1960-2012.pdf * https://www.paralympic.org/paralympic-games-results


Complete Results

# https://www.paralympic.org/rome-1960/results/wheelchair-basketball # https://www.paralympic.org/tokyo-1964/results/wheelchair-basketball # https://www.paralympic.org/tel-aviv-1968/results/wheelchair-basketball # https://www.paralympic.org/heidelberg-1972/results/wheelchair-basketball # https://www.paralympic.org/toronto-1976/results/wheelchair-basketball # https://www.paralympic.org/arnhem-1980/results/wheelchair-basketball # https://www.paralympic.org/stoke-mandeville-new-york-1984/results/wheelchair-basketball # https://www.paralympic.org/seoul-1988/results/wheelchair-basketball # https://www.paralympic.org/barcelona-1992/results/wheelchair-basketball # https://www.paralympic.org/atlanta-1996/results/wheelchair-basketball # https://www.paralympic.org/sydney-2000/results/wheelchair-basketball # https://www.paralympic.org/athens-2004/results/wheelchair-basketball # https://www.paralympic.org/beijing-2008/results/wheelchair-basketball # https://www.paralympic.org/london-2012/results/wheelchair-basketball # https://www.paralympic.org/rio-2016/results/wheelchair-basketball # https://www.paralympic.org/tokyo-2020/results/wheelchair-basketball


References


IPC Historical Results Database - General Search
International Paralympic Committee (IPC) **The information from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) website is based on sources which does not present all information from earlier Paralympic Games (1960-1984), such as relay and team member

(Per 17 April 2011)
Paralympics - Results
International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF)
World History of Wheelchair Basketball
British Wheelchair Basketball {{ParalympicSports Paralympics Wheelchair basketball competitions between national teams Sports at the Summer Paralympics