Japan womens wheelchair basketball team 2013

The Japan women's national wheelchair basketball team is the

wheelchair basketball Wheelchair basketball is a style of basketball played using a sports wheelchair. The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) is the governing body for this sport. It is recognized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) as ...

side that represents

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in international competitions for women as part 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 wheelch ...

Current roster

The following 12 players named for the

Wheelchair basketball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics was held at two venues: Musashino Forest Sport Plaza for group stage rounds and Ariake Arena for group stage and finals. The 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed to 2021 ...

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Women's tournament A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functional uteruses ...

. Head coach:

Yoshiaki Iwasa Yoshiaki is a masculine Japanese given name. Written forms Yoshiaki can be written using many different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples: *孔明, "even bright" *義明, "justice, bright" *義昭, "justice, bright" *義 ...

Competitions

Wheelchair Basketball World Championship

Summer Paralympics

Japan has entered a wheelchair basketball team into the Summer Paralympics since 1984, when it won bronze defeating Canada, until 2008.

Asian Para Games The Asian Para Games, also known as Para Asiad, is a multi-sport event regulated by the Asian Paralympic Committee that's held every four years after every Asian Games for athletes with physical disabilities. Both events had adopted the strat ...

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