WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL NEWS
![Team Canada celebrates their victory over Team Germany in the gold medal game at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Toronto, Canada.](/sites/default/files/images/140629104824150_14528870102_4371be4263_o_0.jpg)
Canada defeat Paralympic champions to win world title
In front of a packed crowd in Toronto, Canada defeated Germany to win the women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championships.
![Tracey Ferguson #12 of Team Canada puts up a two pointer in Semi Final action against Team Netherlands at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Toronto, Canada.](/sites/default/files/images/140628122855667_14523466155_d66f348f2b_o.jpg)
Germany to face Canada in world title decider
Paralympic champions Germany will face hosts Canada in the final of the women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto, Canada.
![Germany's women's wheelchair basketball team](/sites/default/files/images/120908015124497_Germany2_0.jpg)
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.
![Germany and the Netherlands remain undefeated to top their respective pools as the quarter finals are decided.](/sites/default/files/images/140625175239465_NEDvAUS%2B0624%2B-%2BCredit%2BIWBF_0.jpg)
Day five: 2014 Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Worlds
Germany and the Netherlands remain undefeated to top their respective pools as the quarter finals are decided.
![Picture taken from above the basketball basket. Three female players in wheelchairs fighting for the ball under the basket.](/sites/default/files/images/140623130756480_14484437414_6ccec4c452_o_0.jpg)
Day three review: Women’s Wheelchair Basketball World Championships
Germany, the Netherlands, Canada and the USA remain undefeated on day three of the women’s Worlds.
![Two female basketball players in wheelchairs fight for the ball. A referee watches them from behind](/sites/default/files/images/140624161728644_14493457705_73671dce4f_z.jpg)
Day four review: Women’s Wheelchair Basketball World Championships
Germany and the Netherlands remain undefeated as the group stage reaches its latter stages
![INTERVIEW: Janet Mclachlan (Canada) | 2014 IWBF Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championships](/sites/default/files/styles/video_crop_16_9/public/oembed_thumbnails/LRXuROd2UtTqCzZKWQ2s8G9tmA47fNt2J5TCfbborys.jpg?itok=-835uu8f)
Day two review: Women's Wheelchair Basketball World Championships
In Toronto, Canada, there were wins for USA, Australia and the Netherlands in Pool A whilst China, Canada and Germany saw off their opponenets in Pool B.
![INTERVIEW: Rebecca Murray (USA) | 2014 IWBF Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championships](/sites/default/files/styles/video_crop_16_9/public/oembed_thumbnails/c9UG60PC0buh3v_ONvibfd2uJzM1Yz0zA7c73SGDwU0.jpg?itok=GEMiAOWD)
USA upset Paralympic silver medallists Australia in Toronto
Victories in Pool A for USA, Netherlands and France on the first day of competition of the women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championships as Germany, Great Britain and Canada claim Pool B wins.
![Richard Whitehead](/sites/default/files/images/131016174029072_174704511.jpg)
Watch live para-sport this weekend
Five great para-sport events will be live streamed this weekend so do not miss any of the action.
![Tracey Ferguson](/sites/default/files/images/140321094537975__MAC5591.jpg)
Tracey Ferguson aims for hometown success both on and off the court
Canadian is looking to benefit from playing on home soil in the upcoming 2014 Women’s World Wheelchair Basketball Championships on 20-28 June
![Justin Eveson](/sites/default/files/images/140324094702623_151009659_0.jpg)
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.](/sites/default/files/images/130109170128174_LON_0409_2706.jpg)
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”.
![On the left, a wheelchair basketball player looks to pass the ball. On the right is typed information about the 2014 Women's Wheelchair Basketball World Championships.](/sites/default/files/images/140516105055085_9090727651_92994c4550_o_0.jpg)
Teams set for largest women’s World Championships in history
Twelve teams are heading to Toronto, Canada, for the women's wheelchair basketball World Championships which start on Friday.
![Female wheelchair basketball players lined up, cheering during a game with an amputee man in a suit standing in front of them](/sites/default/files/images/140612105606611_151458974_0.jpg)
Van der Linden prepares for two World Championships in successive months
For most coaches, managing one team is stressful enough, but preparing two teams for upcoming World Championships in successive months takes some doing.
![Abdi Jama](/sites/default/files/images/130610150644450_151006077_1.jpg)
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](/sites/default/files/images/120908123052655_Adermann_0.jpg)
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](/sites/default/files/images/130702092939373_Sabine%2BEllerbrock%2Bcredit%2BLuc%2BPercival.jpg)
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.
![Abdi Jama](/sites/default/files/images/130610150644450_151006077_1.jpg)
British team announced for wheelchair basketball Worlds
Four players will make their senior debuts at July's World Championships in Korea for Great Britain.
![A picture of a woman in a wheelchair shooting between two defenders during a wheelchair basketball match.](/sites/default/files/images/130109170128174_LON_0409_2706.jpg)
Janet McLachlan: A week in the life of World Championship training
The Canadian wheelchair basketball player gives fans a quick glance at her schedule in the lead-up to this summer’s big event.
![On the left, a wheelchair basketball player looks to pass the ball. On the right is typed information about the 2014 Women's Wheelchair Basketball World Championships.](/sites/default/files/images/140516105055085_9090727651_92994c4550_o_0.jpg)
Media accreditation opens for Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Worlds
For the first time since 1994, the IWBF Women’s Wheelchair Basketball World Championships will be a separate event from the men’s Championships.