German wheelchair basketball player Barbara Groß has met the criteria of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) classification code after a new examination, making her eligible to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
The 2026 International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) World Championships have been awarded to Canadian capital Ottawa.
Paralympic wheelchair basketball coach Tim Frick has been appointed to the Order of Canada.
World champion wheelchair basketball player Maude Jacques has announced her retirement from the sport following a nine-year international career.
Loughborough University has been commissioned to run a research project to establish new minimum impairment criteria (MIC), which would be incorporated into revised International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) rules to ensure compliance with the International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) Athlete Classification Code.
British Wheelchair Basketball has signed a four-year kit deal with international sportswear brand Kukri Sports.
The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) Athlete Steering Committee claimed it received "extremely useful" feedback on the establishment of a Players' Commission.
Australian wheelchair basketball star Jessica Cronje says she is both "nervous" and "excited" at the prospect of competing in the rearranged Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
Australia’s Ella Sabljak is leading calls for fellow athletes to join a "global conversation" to help shape the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) Players’ Commission.
International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) Europe has been forced to postpone another of its major events because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Great Britain's world champion Terry Bywater has been added to the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation's (IWBF) Athlete Steering Committee.
The 2021 International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) Men's Under-23 World Championship has been moved to 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) has paid tribute to international classifier Hans Vorsteveld, who has died at the age of 83.
International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) Europe has cancelled the preliminary rounds of its 2021 EuroCup and confirmed the tournament will be held over a single weekend next April.
The Austrian Disabled Sports Association (OBSV) says it is excited to be able to launch a new digital platform for the country's wheelchair basketball league.
Canadian show jumper Ian Millar holds the record for the most Olympic appearances by an athlete in any sport. When he competed at London 2012 at the age of 65 it was the tenth time he had competed in the Games since making his debut 30 years earlier at Munich 1972. He had won his only Olympic medal at Beijing 2008 when he was part of Canada’s team that took silver in the team jumping event. Millar won a gold medal in the Pan American Games team jumping event at Toronto 2015. He announced his retirement in 2019.
The City of Liverpool is host to the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in 2022.
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Almost 35 years after losing out to Barcelona for the 1992 Olympics, Brisbane is poised to stage the Games in 2032. Philip Barker reports on the long history of Australian Olympic bids, with the country still one of only two in the Southern Hemisphere to have hosted the Games.
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