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
Medalists

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

Winning the Paralympics is considered to be the highest honor 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	Israel
1964 Tokyo	United States	Great Britain	Israel

Class B

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

Men's team

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1968 Tel Aviv	Israel	United States	Great Britain
1972 Heidelberg	United States	Israel	Argentina
1976 Toronto	United States	Israel	France
1980 Arnhem	Israel	Netherlands	United States
1984 Stoke Mandeville	France	Netherlands	Sweden
1988 Seoul	United States	Netherlands	France
1992 Barcelona	Netherlands	Germany	France
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
1968 Tel Aviv	Israel	Argentina	United States
1972 Heidelberg	Argentina	Jamaica	Israel
1976 Toronto	Israel	West Germany	Argentina
1980 Arnhem	West Germany	Israel	United States
1984 Stoke Mandeville	West Germany	Israel	Japan
1988 Seoul	United States	West Germany	Netherlands
1992 Barcelona	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	6	4	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
14	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		32	32	32	96

See also

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

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