The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) has launched a new campaign featuring some of the nation's top athletes as it looks to create conversation about disability before the Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 Paralympics.
Shaun Norris and Tristan Knowles will make their fifth Paralympic appearances as part of the Australian men’s wheelchair basketball side as they bid to win the nation’s first gold medal in the sport for 13 years at Tokyo 2020.
Canada has selected its wheelchair basketball teams for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.
Australia’s women’s wheelchair basketball team will be setting their sights on a return to the Paralympic podium after confirming their 12-player squad for next month’s Games here in Tokyo.
Australia’s wheelchair basketballers will benefit from Formula One racecar technology when they compete at this year's Paralympics.
The United States will open the defence of their Paralympic women's wheelchair basketball title with a clash against reigning world champions The Netherlands at Tokyo 2020.
More than 100 international technical officials came together for a virtual assembly ran by the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF).
The top four finishers at the 2018 World Championship have been drawn together in the men's wheelchair basketball tournament at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
Basketball Australia has announced a condensed men’s National Wheelchair Basketball League (NWBL) with regular season matches set to be held in four cities in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) Europe have announced that Spain will host the Men's and Women's 2021 European Wheelchair Basketball Championships in December.
The draw for the wheelchair basketball tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games on May 12 has been moved from the Japanese capital to Stoke Mandeville in England due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) Europe has announced the new dates for this year’s rescheduled Men's Under-23 European Championship.
British Wheelchair Basketball has launched the world's first professional women's league in the sport.
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has rejected an arrangement that would allow athletes currently deemed ineligible in the classification reassessment process being undertaken by the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) to play in major events, including Tokyo 2020.
British Wheelchair Basketball (BWB) has announced a four-year partnership with Irwin Mitchell, which will see the nationwide firm of legal and financial advisors become BWB’s official supplier for wealth management.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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