Wheelchair basketball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Wheelchair basketball
at the XVI Paralympic Games
Venue Musashino Forest Sports Plaza (preliminaries)
Ariake Arena (finals)
Competitors 264 from 12 (men's) and 10 (women's) nations

Wheelchair basketball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics will be held at two venues: Musashino Forest Sports Plaza for group stage rounds and Ariake Arena for finals.

Qualifying

There will be 12 qualified men's teams and 10 qualified women's teams. [1]

Men

Means of qualificationDateVenueBerthsQualified
2018 IWBF World Championships16th - 26th August 2018 Germany Hamburg4 Great Britain (GBR)
 United States (USA)
 Australia (AUS)
 Iran (IRI)
2019 Americas Zonal ChampionshipsTBCTBC1
2019 Europe Zonal Championships[2]28th August - 9th September 2019Poland Wałbrzych1
2019 Asia/Oceania Zonal ChampionshipTBCTBC1
2019 Africa Zonal Championships - MenTBCTBC1
2020 IWBF Men's Final Qualification TournamentTBCTBC3
Host country allocation--1 Japan (JPN)
Total12

Women

Means of qualificationDateVenueBerthsQualified
2018 IWBF World Championships16th - 26th August 2018 Germany Hamburg4 Netherlands (NED)
 Great Britain (GBR)
 Germany (GER)
 China (CHN)
2019 Americas Zonal ChampionshipsTBCTBC1
2019 Europe Zonal Championships[3]29th June - 9th July 2019Netherlands Rotterdam1
2019 Asia/Oceania Zonal ChampionshipsTBCTBC1
2019 Africa Zonal ChampionshipsTBCTBC1
2020 IWBF Women's Final Qualification TournamentTBCTBC1
Host country allocations--1 Japan (JPN)
Total10

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's team
Women's team

See also

References

  1. "Tokyo 2020 Summer Paralympics - Qualification Regulations" (PDF). www.paralympic.org. 1 September 2018.
  2. "Poland and Netherlands set to host 2019 European Championships". iwbf.org. 3 October 2018.
  3. "Poland and Netherlands set to host 2019 European Championships". iwbf.org. 3 October 2018.
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