Wheelchair basketball at the Summer Paralympics

Wheelchair basketball at the Summer Paralympics
Governing body	IWBF
Events	2 (men: 1; women: 1)
Games
1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020

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

Winning the Paralympics is considered to be the highest honour 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

Medalists[]

Medal winning athletes for every Summer Games since 1960 are as follows:

Men's team[]

Class A

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960 Rome	United States	Great Britain
1964 Tokyo	United States	Great Britain

Class B

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960 Rome	United States	Netherlands	Great Britain
1964 Tokyo	United States

Men's team

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
		United States	Great Britain
	United States
	United States
		Netherlands	United States
		Netherlands
	United States	Netherlands
1992 Barcelona	Netherlands
1996 Atlanta	Australia	Great Britain	United States
2000 Sydney	Canada	Netherlands	United States
2004 Athens	Canada	Australia	Great Britain
2008 Beijing	Australia	Canada	Great Britain
2012 London	Canada	Australia	United States
2016 Rio	United States	Spain	Great Britain
2020 Tokyo	United States	Japan	Great Britain

Women's team[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
			United States
		West Germany
	West Germany		United States
	West Germany		Japan
	United States	West Germany	Netherlands
	Canada	United States	Netherlands
1996 Atlanta	Canada	Netherlands	United States
2000 Sydney	Canada	Australia	Japan
2004 Athens	United States	Australia	Canada
2008 Beijing	United States	Germany	Australia
2012 London	Germany	Australia	Netherlands
2016 Rio	United States	Germany	Netherlands
2020 Tokyo	Netherlands	China	United States

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	13	2	8	23
2	Canada	6	1	1	8
3	Israel	4	4	4	12
4	Germany	3	5	0	8
5	Netherlands	2	5	5	12
6	Australia	2	5	1	8
7	Argentina	1	2	2	5
8	France	1	0	3	4
9	Great Britain	0	3	6	9
10	Japan	0	1	2	3
11	China	0	1	0	1
	Jamaica	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
Totals (14 nations)		32	32	32	96

See also[]

• Basketball at the Summer Olympics
• Basketball ID at the Summer Paralympics

References[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wheelchair basketball at the Summer Paralympics.

• 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.[1] (Per 17 April 2011)
• Paralympics - Results, International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF)
• World History of Wheelchair Basketball, British Wheelchair Basketball