Wheelchair basketball: New recruits wanted
GBWBA is looking to inspire new people to get involved with wheelchair basketball with the ambition to play for Great Britain one day. (more…)
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GBWBA is looking to inspire new people to get involved with wheelchair basketball with the ambition to play for Great Britain one day. (more…)
When: 7-17 July 2010
Where: Birmingham
Details: Following on from the successful staging of the World Junior Wheelchair Basketball Championships in August 2005, Birmingham and the Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball Association (GBWBA) have won the bid to stage the senior version of the event in 2010, just two years before the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
This International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) event will be staged at Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena in July 2010 and will be organised by GBWBA and Birmingham City Council, with support from the National Lottery through UK Sport’s World Class Events Programme.
The tournament will see 12 men’s and 10 women’s teams compete in the most important and biggest wheelchair basketball event before the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
More Info: www.gbwba.org.uk
Caroline Maclean inspired Great Britain to a bronze medal in the FSB Women’s European Wheelchair Basketball Championships after a 53-41 victory over France. (more…)
A mix of youth and experience seems to be the focus behind the recently announced squad to compete in the FSB Women’s European Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Stoke Mandeville this August. (more…)
When: 27th August – 30th August, 2009
Where: Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom
Details: Team GB will be participating in the FSB Women’s European Wheelchair Basketball Championships 2009
The girls have been grouped in pool 2 alongside the Netherlands, Turkey and Italy, and they will be hoping to go one step further than they did in the BT Paralympic World Cup last May, when they narrowly missed out on bronze.
More info:
Paralympics GB