The 2024 IWBF Asia-Oceania Championships were held at the Thai-Japanese Bangkok Youth Center in Bangkok, Thailand between 12 and 20 January 2024. In the men's competition, Australia qualified for a place at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France, and Iran earned a place at the 2024 IWBF MenâÂÂs Repechage in Antibes, France. In the women's competition, China earned a place at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, while Japan, Australia and Thailand qualified for 2024 IWBF Women's Repechage in Osaka, Japan.
Wheelchair basketball at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France, to be hosted between 29 August to 8 September 2024, will feature men's and women's tournaments. There will be reduced number of teams participating: eight teams in each tournament, four less men's teams and two less women's teams than in the previous Games. The 2022 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships were held in Dubai in United Arab Emirates, from 8 to 20 June 2023.
As a result, the winning team from both the men's and women's competitions earned a ticket to the Paris 2024 Paralympics Games. Second and third place getters in the womenâÂÂs competition earned a place in the 2024 IWBF Women's Repechage in Osaka, Japan, and second place in the menâÂÂs competition earned earn a place at the 2024 IWBF MenâÂÂs Repechage in Antibes, France.
There were two pools, A and B. Both engaged in a round-robin competition to determine rankings, with the top two teams in Pool B advancing to the quarter finals as the 7th and 8th seeds in Pool A.
<sup>*</sup> Qualified directly for Paris 2024<br/> <sup>**</sup> Qualified for 2024 IWBF Men's Repechage
Pool A played a double round-robin, while Pool B played a single round-robin. The top team in Pool B and all the teams in Pool A earned a place in the semi-finals.
<sup>*</sup> Qualified directly for Paris 2024<br/> <sup>**</sup> Qualified directly for 2024 IWBF WomenâÂÂs Repechage