Wheelchair Basketball

Wheelchair Basketball was developed by Sir Ludwig Guttmann at Stoke Mandeville Hospital following WWII as a form of rehabilitation for injured war veterans.

Basketball became a Paralympic Games sport at the first Games in Rome in 1960.

Wheelchair Basketball is open to male or female athletes and is played by two teams of five players each. 

Players are allocated points from 1 to 4.5 depending on their functional ability. Five players out of 12 from each team are on the court at any one time and throughout the game the total point value of each team on court must not exceed 14 points.