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2020 Summer Paralympics; IPC code: USA: NPC: ... Swimming: Women's 400 metre freestyle S11 ... United States men's national wheelchair basketball team - 2020 Summer ...
The United States women's national wheelchair basketball team began in the mid-1960s. The first women's team to compete alongside men in the Paralympic Games was in the inaugural 1968 tournament. A few years later in 1977, a women's wheelchair basketball division was created in the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA). [1]
The team then improved to a fourth-place finish in 2016, and third in 2020, and unexpectedly finished first at the 2018 Winter Paralympics. The United States was the co-host of the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville and New York. It also hosted the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta and 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City.
Team USA will include 141 returning Paralympians, including swimmer Jessica Long, sprinter Hunter Woodhall and multi-sport Paralympian Oksana Masters. United States announces team for 2024 ...
The Paris Paralympic Games begin on Wednesday, just a couple of weeks after its Paris Olympics counterpart extinguished its flame. Meet the Paralympians on Team USA.
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.
Team Event Group stage Semifinal Final / BM; Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Rank Opposition Score Opposition Score Rank United States national team: Mixed tournament Chile W 62–27 Argentina W 55–31 Colombia W 57–42 Brazil W 54–36 Canada L 41–46 2 Q Colombia W 52–45 Canada W 57–51
The 2020 Summer Paralympics women's tournament in Tokyo began on 25 August and ended on the 4 September 2021. The matches were played at the Musashino Forest Sport Plaza and the Ariake Arena. This was the fourteenth edition of the tournament since the tournament debut at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv.