Wheelchair Basketball World Championship
| Sport | Wheelchair basketball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1973 |
| Country | IWBF members |
| Continent | IWBF (International) |
The IWBF World Wheelchair Basketball Championship is an international wheelchair basketball competition contested by the men's and the women's national teams of the members of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF), the sport's global governing body.
The first unofficial Wheelchair Basketball World Championships for men was held in 1973,[1] with Bruges, Belgium being the first host city. The unofficial world championship for men was won by Great Britain, with a team that included Philip Craven,[2] who would later become the President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Bruges, Belgium also hosted the first official World Championships, known as the Gold Cup tournament, in 1975.
The men's world championships has been won 6 times by the United States, and once each by Great Britain (unofficial Championship 1973), Israel, France Canada, and Australia. Wheelchair basketball world championships for women have been held since 1990. In the first 6 women's world championships, Canada has won four world titles, and the United States two world titles.
Winners
| Year | Host | Men | Women |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973* | Bruges (Belgium) |  Great Britain | – |
| 1975 | Bruges (Belgium) |  Israel | – |
| 1979 | Tampa (United States) |  United States | – |
| 1983 | Halifax (Canada) | United States | – |
| 1986 | Melbourne (Australia) | United States | – |
| 1990 | Bruges (Belgium) |  France | – |
| Saint-Étienne (France) | – | United States | |
| 1994[3] | Edmonton (Canada) | United States | – |
| Stoke Mandeville (Great Britain) | – |  Canada | |
| 1998[3] | Sydney (Australia) | United States | Canada |
| 2002[3] | Kitakyushu (Japan) | United States | Canada |
| 2006[3] | Amsterdam (Netherlands) | Canada | Canada |
| 2010[3] | Birmingham (United Kingdom) |  Australia | United States |
| 2014 [4][5] | Incheon (South Korea) | Australia | – |
| Toronto (Canada) | – | Canada |
* Unofficial Championship
Results
Summaries
Men
| Year | Host (final location) | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Score | Silver | Bronze | Score | Fourth place | ||||
| 1973* Details |
.svg.png){kind=small} Belgium (Bruges) |
Great Britain |
50–37 | France |
 Netherlands |
– | |||
| 1975 Details |
Belgium (Bruges) |
Israel |
50–47 | United States |
Great Britain |
– | |||
| 1979 Details |
United States (Tampa) |
United States |
60–49 | Netherlands |
France |
– | |||
| 1983 Details |
Canada (Halifax) |
United States |
86–67 | France |
 Sweden |
– | |||
| 1986 Details |
Australia (Melbourne) |
United States |
61–40 | Canada |
Netherlands |
– | |||
| 1990[6] Details |
Belgium (Bruges) |
France |
62–61 | United States |
Canada |
– | Netherlands | ||
| 1994[3] Details |
Canada (Edmonton) |
United States |
67–53 | Great Britain |
Canada |
72–62 | France | ||
| 1998[3] Details |
Australia (Sydney) |
United States |
61–59 | Netherlands |
Canada |
63–56 | Australia | ||
| 2002[3] Details |
 Japan (Kitakyushu) |
United States |
– | Great Britain |
Canada |
– | Australia | ||
| 2006[3] Details |
Netherlands (Amsterdam) |
Canada |
59–41 | United States |
Australia |
80–53 | Netherlands | ||
| 2010[3] Details |
Great Britain (Birmingham) |
Australia |
79–69 | France |
United States |
71–42 |  Italy | ||
| 2014 Details |
 South Korea (Incheon) |
Australia |
63–57 | United States |
 Turkey |
68–63 |  Spain | ||
* Unofficial Championship
Women
| Year | Host (final location) | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Score | Silver | Bronze | Score | Fourth place | ||||
| 1990[6] Details |
France (Saint-Étienne) |
United States |
58–55 |  Germany |
Canada |
– | - | ||
| 1994[3] Details |
Great Britain (Stoke Mandeville) |
Canada |
45–34 | United States |
Australia |
38–36 | Netherlands | ||
| 1998[3] Details |
Australia (Sydney) |
Canada |
54–38 | United States |
Australia |
40–35 | Japan | ||
| 2002[3] Details |
Japan (Kitakyushu) |
Canada |
– | United States |
Australia |
– | Japan | ||
| 2006[3] Details |
Netherlands (Amsterdam) |
Canada |
58–50 | United States |
Germany |
52–48 | Australia | ||
| 2010[3] Details |
Great Britain (Birmingham) |
United States |
55–53 | Germany |
Canada |
59–49 | Australia | ||
| 2014[7] Details |
Canada (Toronto) |
Canada |
54–50 | Germany |
Netherlands |
74–58 | United States | ||
References
- ↑ History of the Game, International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF)
- ↑ Sir Philip CRAVEN, MBE, Official website of the Olympic Movement
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "World Championships - Results". International Wheelchair Basketball Federation.
- ↑ "2014 Incheon World Wheelchair Basketball Championship > Schedule & Result". 2014 Incheon World Wheelchair Basketball Championship Organizing Committee. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
- ↑ "2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship - Schedule & Results". Wheelchair Basketball Canada. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
- 1 2 Armand Thiboutot, Philip Craven (1996). The 50th Anniversary of Wheelchair Basketball: A History. Waxmann Verlag. p. 80. ISBN 3830954417.
- ↑ "Schedule & Results - 2014 WWWBC". Wheelchair Basketball Canada. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
External links
- World Championships Results, International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF)
- Official site of the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships 2010, British Wheelchair Basketball
- Canada to host 2 Wheelchair World Championships, basketball.ca, October 23, 2009
- Chronology of Events in the Development of Wheelchair Basketball, International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF)
- Korea awarded 2014 Men's World Champiohship, International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF), April 9, 2010
- World Championship Wheelchair Basketball - Gold Cup 2006, Archived copy at the Wayback Machine
- International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF)