WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL NEWS

Germany's women's wheelchair basketball team

Semi-finals decided at women’s worlds

Germany, Canada, the Netherlands and the USA are through to the semi-finals with victory on day six of the 2014 Women’s World Wheelchair Basketball Championships.

Justin Eveson

Rollers team named for IWBF World Champs

The Australian Rollers men’s national wheelchair basketball team have named their final 12 players who will represent Australia at the 2014 IWBF World Championships in South Korea.

A picture of a woman in a wheelchair shooting between two defenders during a wheelchair basketball match.

Canada’s sixth man: The home court advantage

There was only one word that Canada’s wheelchair basketballer Janet McLachlan could use to describe how she will feel when she takes to the court for Friday’s (20 June) World Championships opening match against Japan in front of friends and family - “Special”.

Abdi Jama

Podiums set for new look at World Championships

When the dust settles on July’s 2014 Men’s IWBF Wheelchair Basketball World Championships in Incheon, South Korea, it will be a new-look podium according to Great Britain’s captain Abdi Jama.

Mareike Adermann

Adermann looks to add world title to Paralympic gold

After injuries put paid to Mareike Adermann’s hopes of playing professional basketball aged 14, the German will be forever thankful to her teacher for introducing her to the wheelchair format of the game.

German wheelchair tennis player Sabine Ellerbrock

WHAT TO WATCH: June 2014

A jam-packed month in store for sports fans, highlighted by international competitions in fencing, shooting, athletics, wheelchair tennis, sitting volleyball, wheelchair basketball, goalball and para-triathlon.