The course saw IWBF instructors, a group of former or current officials who have refereed at the highest level, undergo training to ensure they were up-to-date with the current rules and regulations and technical skills.

Each instructor must complete the training every four years, to ensure they are able to maintain their level of knowledge of the rules and to allow them to train and guide the next generation of referees.

Instructors were provided with classroom and computer based training, in Toronto, including a programme which uses live tagging actions of the referees in a game.

The decisions of the officials were then reviewed by the instructors, with a focus placed on being positive when reviewing the process made by the referees.

Kucera offered praise to IWBF secretary general Maureen Orchard, the Canadian Wheelchair Basketball Federation and the instructors’ national federations for ensuring the event proved a success.

The course received funding from the International Paralympic Committee’s Agitos Foundation.

“With the instructors course, we were able to realise the next step forward in not only teaching and educating our officials on court, but go back to the fundamentals of each learning process: The skills of the teachers,” said Kucera.

“The course offered a wide range of different aspects on the big field of teaching and educating.

“It opened the focus to a variety of different tools, skills and materials which can be used to make our next generation of officials still a bit better to finally improve our great sport.”

One of the key targets of the 2015 edition of the course was to provide training to instructors from Africa, Asia and the Americas to boost the standard of officiating in those regions.

With the course held at the same time as training for national referees under the age of 30, the participants were able to test their skills, with the referees becoming their students.