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 ...

has been contested at the Summer Paralympics since the

1960 Summer Paralympics The 9th Annual International Stoke Mandeville Games, retroactively designated as the 1960 Summer Paralympics ( it, Giochi paralimpici estivi del 1960),

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. Winning the Paralympics is considered to be the highest honour in international wheelchair basketball, followed by the

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of the

International Wheelchair Basketball Federation The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) is the international governing body for the sport of wheelchair basketball. IWBF is recognized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) as the sole competent authority in wheelchair ...

(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

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

Medal table

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