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In 1989, ISMGF accepted the name International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) for its former sub-section. With this step wheelchair basketball began its journey for full independence and in 1993 IWBF was established as the world body for wheelchair basketball with full responsibility for development of the sport.
The IWBF World Wheelchair Basketball Championship (World Championships from 1973 to 2002 (2006) known as Gold Cup) 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 (), the sport's global governing body.
Great Britain vs. Germany, men's semifinal in 2007: Dirk Köhler-Lenz (Germany, #15) and Jon Pollock (Great Britain, #9).. The European Wheelchair Basketball Championship, is the main wheelchair basketball competition contested biennially by national teams governed by IWBF Europe, the European zone within the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation.
Wheelchair basketball is a style of basketball played using a sports wheelchair. [1] The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) is the governing body for this sport. [2] It is recognized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) as the sole competent authority in wheelchair basketball worldwide.
The IWBF Champions League, formerly IWBF Champions Cup, is the top European competition in wheelchair basketball clubs in mens. Events. Since 2009, the European club ...
They are the only team to have won the IWBF World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in three successive tournaments (accomplishing that feat twice; 1979-1986 & 1994-2002) and medalling in nearly every tournament held of the Parapan American Games, as well as the IWBF’s U23 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships.
The Philippines already has a national wheelchair basketball team as early as the 2000s. The country's national team which was directly under the auspices of the Philippine Sports Association for the Differently Abled—National Paralympic Committee (PHILSPADA-NPC) competed in the inaugural edition of the ASEAN Wheelchair Basketball Championship in 2003 where it had a second-place finish.
The IWBF Africa 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 , the sport's global governing body. [1] [2] [3]