International Wheelchair Basketball Federation
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Highest governing body | |
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Characteristics | |
Mixed-sex | No |
Type | Indoor |
Presence | |
Paralympic | 1960 |
The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) is the international
History
The
In 1973, the
Members
Zones
IWBF studied several models before creating its current zone structure. Based on the number of National Organizations for Wheelchair Basketball (NOWB) with active programs at the national and international level it was decided that IWBF Americas and IWBF Europe could be the same as FIBA Americas and FIBA Europe. However, because of the limited number of countries with active programs in the rest of the world, IWBF chose to combine some regions to create better developmental and competitive opportunities within the zone. As a result, the last two zones of IWBF (2005) are IWBF Asia Oceania and IWBF Africa.
Before 2007 or 2005 Africa and west asian in one zone and east asia with oceania in one zone.
Members in May 2022:[3][4][5][6]
- IWBF Americas - Americas Wheelchair Basketball Championship - 20 Members
- IWBF Europe - European Wheelchair Basketball Championship - 35 Members
- IWBF Asia Oceania - Asia Oceania Wheelchair Basketball Championships - 26 Members
- IWBF Africa - Africa Wheelchair Basketball Championship - 17 Members
National Members
As of 2003, IWBF has 76 NOWB actively participating in wheelchair basketball throughout the world with this number increasing each year. As of 2021, IWBF has 95 NOWB actively participating in wheelchair basketball throughout the world with this number increasing each year. 98 in May 2022.
- IWBF Asia Oceania 26
- IWBF Africa 17
- IWBF America 20
- IWBF Euro 35
IWBF Asia Oceania
- Afghanistan
- Australia
- Bahrain
- Cambodia
- China
- Chinese Taipei
- Hong Kong
- Indonesia
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Japan
- Jordan
- Korea
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Malaysia
- Nepal
- New Zealand
- Oman
- Palestine
- Philippines
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- Thailand
- United Arab Emirates
Africa
- Algeria
- Angola
- Burkina Faso
- Central African Republic
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Morocco
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- South Africa
- Rwanda
- Tanzania
- Uganda
America
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Uruguay
- USA
- Venezuela
Euro
- Armenia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Serbia
- Slovak Republic
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- Ukraine
Executive Council
IWBF is governed by an Executive Council that is elected at the World Congress every four years. Philip Craven (Great Britain) who had served as Chairperson of the ISMGF wheelchair basketball Section since 1988 was elected in 1993 as the first President of IWBF.
In 2001, Brendan Hancock was elected to the position of President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and retired as president of IWBF at the World Congress in 2002. Maureen Orchard (Canada) was elected as only the second president of IWBF at that same World Congress in Kitakyushu, Japan in 2002.
Classification
In order to make the competitions
The person who performs classification called classifier. Classifiers have Bronze, Silver and Gold badges according to their knowledge and experience. Recently the classification rules made changes and have only two levels, namely the national classifier, the zone classifier and the International Classifier. [1]
Don Perriman (Australia) is the current President of Classification Commission
Kenneth McKay (Great Britain)
Gold Classifier
Gholamhossein Shahrabadi (Iran)
Gold Classier
Toufic Allouch (Lebanon)
Wheelchair basketball national organizations around the world
Wheelchair basketball national organizations have developed in a variety of ways. Most started out the same way as IWBF, as a sub-section of a national wheelchair sport organization. As IWBF matured so did many of its member organizations and now there are several models that IWBF embraces within its membership. In
Member organizations
- Canadian Wheelchair Basketball Association
- US - National Wheelchair Basketball Association
- Australian Wheelchair Athletes Ltd.
- Mexican - National National Paralympic Committee
- Bahrain Disabled Sports Federation
- Holland - Nederlandse Basketball Bond
- Malaysia men's national wheelchair basketball team
- Islamic Republic of Iran Sports Federation for the Disabled
Events
- Wheelchair basketball at the Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair Basketball World Championship
- IWBF U23 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship
- Africa Wheelchair Basketball Championship
- European Wheelchair Basketball Championship
- Wheelchair Eurobasket
- IWBF Champions Cup
- André Vergauwen Cup
- Willi Brinkmann Cup
- IWBF Challenge Cup
- Kitakyushu Champions Cup
- Wheelchair basketball at the Asian Para Games
- Wheelchair basketball at the 2023 European Para Championships
- Wheelchair basketball at the 2015 ASEAN Para Games
- Wheelchair basketball at the 2017 ASEAN Para Games
- Wheelchair basketball at the 2022 ASEAN Para Games
- Wheelchair basketball at the 2023 ASEAN Para Games
References
- ISBN 978-1-317-40415-6.
- PMID 25729153.
- ^ "IWBF Asia Oceania". 8 November 2017. Archived from the original on 2022-01-09.
- ^ "IWBF Africa". 8 November 2017. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12.
- ^ "IWBF Americas". 8 November 2017. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10.
- ^ "IWBF Europe". 10 January 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-12-31.
External links
- International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF)
- European Wheelchair Basketball Championship-A Division (Adana 2009/Turkey) Archived 2010-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
- Asia-Oceania Championship 2009
- https://www.paralympic.org/sites/default/files/document/130612102726657_2013_06_Dato+Zainal+Abu+Zarin-website.pdf
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230704140007/https://iwbf.org/aoz/
- https://iwbf.org/about-us/zones/