Wheelchair basketball at the Summer Paralympics

Wheelchair basketball has been contested at the Summer Paralympic Games since the 1960 Summer Paralympics in Rome.

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 (1968–2024)

Total (1960–2024)

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

1. 1968: 13 Teams
2. 1972: Division I 9 Teams / Division II 10 Teams
3. 1976: 21 Teams
4. 1980: 17 Teams
5. 1984: 18 Teams
6. 1988: 17 Teams
7. 1992: 12 Teams
8. 1996: 12 Teams
9. 2000: 12 Teams
10. 2004: 12 Teams
11. 2008: 12 Teams
12. 2012: 12 Teams
13. 2016: 12 Teams
14. 2020: 12 Teams
15. 2024: 8 Teams

Women

See also

• Basketball at the Summer Olympics
• Basketball ID at the Summer Paralympics
• Wheelchair Basketball World Championship
• Asia Oceania Zone (AOZ) Wheelchair Basketball Championship
• Africa Wheelchair Basketball Championship
• European Wheelchair Basketball Championship
• Pan American Wheelchair Basketball 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

1. https://www.paralympic.org/rome-1960/results/wheelchair-basketball
2. https://www.paralympic.org/tokyo-1964/results/wheelchair-basketball
3. https://www.paralympic.org/tel-aviv-1968/results/wheelchair-basketball
4. https://www.paralympic.org/heidelberg-1972/results/wheelchair-basketball
5. https://www.paralympic.org/toronto-1976/results/wheelchair-basketball
6. https://www.paralympic.org/arnhem-1980/results/wheelchair-basketball
7. https://www.paralympic.org/stoke-mandeville-new-york-1984/results/wheelchair-basketball
8. https://www.paralympic.org/seoul-1988/results/wheelchair-basketball
9. https://www.paralympic.org/barcelona-1992/results/wheelchair-basketball
10. https://www.paralympic.org/atlanta-1996/results/wheelchair-basketball
11. https://www.paralympic.org/sydney-2000/results/wheelchair-basketball
12. https://www.paralympic.org/athens-2004/results/wheelchair-basketball
13. https://www.paralympic.org/beijing-2008/results/wheelchair-basketball
14. https://www.paralympic.org/london-2012/results/wheelchair-basketball
15. https://www.paralympic.org/rio-2016/results/wheelchair-basketball
16. 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 members.http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/reports.html?type=multi&sport=28&gender=all (Per 17 April 2011)
• Paralympics - Results , International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF)
• World History of Wheelchair Basketball , British Wheelchair Basketball