International Wheelchair Basketball FederationThe International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) is the international governing body for wheelchair basketball. The IWBF is recognized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) as the sole competent authority in wheelchair basketball worldwide. The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) recognizes the IWBF under Article 53 of its General Statutes.
Robert SteadwardRobert Daniel Steadward, (born May 26, 1946) is a Canadian retired sports administrator, professor, sports scientist, and author. Steadward helped organize the first Canadian wheelchair sport national championships in 1968, and later coached Canada in wheelchair basketball at the Summer Paralympics. He became a professor at the University of Alberta in 1971, later served as chairman of the Department of Athletics, and published more than 150 papers about disability sport.
Andrew Parsons (sports administrator)Andrew George William Parsons (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈɐndɾu ˈpaʁsõs]; born 10 February 1977) is a Brazilian sports administrator and journalist. He is the current president of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). In 2018, Parsons became a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Paralympic GamesThe Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, have been held shortly after the corresponding Olympic Games. All Paralympic Games are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The Paralympics began as a small gathering of British World War II veterans in 1948.
National Paralympic CommitteeA National Paralympic Committee (NPC) is a national organisation recognised by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) as the sole representative of the Paralympic Movement in the NPC's country or territory. NPCs are responsible for organizing their athletes' participation in the Paralympic Games.1994 Winter ParalympicsThe 1994 Winter Paralympics (Norwegian: Paralympiske vinterleker 1994; Nynorsk: Paralympiske vinterleikane 1994), the sixth Paralympic Winter Games, were held in Lillehammer, Norway, from 10 to 19 March 1994.The Lillehammer Paralympics were the second time that the Games were held in Norway, after the 1980 Winter Paralympics in Geilo. 471 athletes from 31 countries participated, with Norway claiming the most gold medals ahead of Germany.
West GermanyToday part ofGermanyFrom 1952 onwards, the official national anthem of West Germany was Deutschlandlied in its entirety, but only the third stanza was typically sung at official events.The state did not cease to exist after reunification but continued as the Federal Republic in an enlarged territory.Population statistics according to the Federal Statistical Office of GermanyIn the state of Saarland, between January 1957 and July 1959, the French franc and Saar francAt first, Bonn was referred to only as the provisional seat of government institutions, but from the early 1970s it was called the "federal capital" (Bundeshauptstadt).Although West Berlin was formally under the sovereignty of the Western Allies and separate from West Germany, it operated as a de facto state of West Germany in many ways, including being represented by non-voting delegates in the West German legislative bodies.West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990.
BonnBonn (German pronunciation:), officially the Federal City of Bonn (German: Bundesstadt Bonn), is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 320,000, it lies about 24 km (15 mi) south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region.
DüsseldorfCapital of North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyCity in North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyDüsseldorf (German:) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the sixth-largest city in Germany, with a 2024 population of 618,685.German languageGerman (Deutsch, pronounced [dɔɪ̯tʃ] ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the majority and official (or co-official) language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. It is also an official language of Luxembourg, Belgium and the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol, French autonomous region of Alsace and as well as a recognised national language in Namibia.
Philip CravenSir Philip Lee Craven (born 4 July 1950) is an English sports administrator, former Paralympic wheelchair basketball player, swimmer and track and field athlete. Between 2001 and 2017 he was the second president of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.