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Beijing National Indoor Stadium
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The National Indoor Stadium, is an indoor arena that is located in the Olympic Green in Beijing, China. The stadium was constructed for the 2008 Summer Olympics and it is nicknamed the Fan due to its design resembling a traditional Chinese folding fan. It is also used for basketball, the stadium opened its doors on November 26,2007 for the artistic Gymnastics test event. At the 2008 Olympics, it hosted the Artistic Gymnastics, Trampolining, after the Olympics, the stadium is used for sports competition, cultural and entertaining purposes, and serves as a multi-functional exercise center for local residents. The stadium has a capacity of 18,000 people, media related to Beijing National Indoor Stadium at Wikimedia Commons Beijing National Indoor Stadium Official Website
Beijing National Indoor Stadium
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National Indoor Stadium
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Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
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Australia sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. The country sent 167 athletes in 13 sports and 122 officials and it was the countrys largest ever Paralympic delegation to an away Games. The delegations chef de mission was Darren Peters, Australia won 23 gold,29 silver and 27 bronze medals. It finished fourth on the medal tally and fifth on the gold medal tally. Major sporting achievements for the Australian team included, Matthew Cowdrey, Peter Leek, a cerebral palsy swimmer, winning eight medals including three gold. Heath Francis, an arm amputee sprinter and Evan OHanlon, cerebral palsy sprinter winning three gold medals, kurt Fearnley, a wheelchair racer, winning the marathon for the second time. Australian mens wheelchair basketball team winning gold,98 Australian athletes won a medal. Australian athletes,21 new world records,31 Paralympic records,79 Australian records and 164 personal bests, jessica Gallagher was selected in the team but was classified ineligible to compete. She attended the Games as a member of staff, Australia won 10 gold,9 silver and 7 bronze medals. Australian athletes set six records, a further three Paralympic records and 16 Australian records during the Games. Heath Francis and Evan OHanlon won three gold medals, included on the Australian team was Michael Milton, a four-time gold medalist as a skier in the Winter Paralympics. Mark le Flohic, gold medalist at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Paralympics, was to part in the Beijing Games but had to pull out due to injury. Le Flohic broke his collar bone during training one week before the Games were to begin, Australia won 3 gold,5 and 7 bronze medals. Australia won 2 bronze medals through Georgia Bruces performances, the competition was held in Hong Kong. Australia won a silver and bronze medal, Australia did not win a medal. Australian shooters narrowly missed medals by finishing 4th twice, Australia won 9 gold,11 silver and 9 bronze medals placing it sixth on the swimming medal tally. It was Australias most successful sport at the Games, Matthew Cowdrey and Peter Leek were the standout swimmers. Representing Australia in table tennis, Women – Rebecca Julian, Sarah Lazzaro, catherine Morrow was selected but withdrew from the team
Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
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A medal won by O'Hanlon at the 2008 Summer Paralympics on display at the Australian Institute of Sport
Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
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United States at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
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The United States sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. A total of 213 U. S. competitors took part in 18 sports, the American delegation included 16 former members of the U. S. military, including 3 veterans of the Iraq War. The United States finished third in the gold and overall medal count, behind host nation China, the finish was an improvement from the 2004 Paralympics, where the U. S. finished fourth in the gold and overall medal count. The U. S. saw significant gains in Paralympic swimming, winning 17 gold medals and 44 total medals,9 more than they took home from Athens. U. S. swimmers set a total of 16 world records,23 Paralympic records,48 Pan American records and 99 American records. U. S. coverage of the Games was provided by the Universal Sports Television Network, every participant at the Paralympics had their disability grouped into one of five disability categories, amputation, cerebral palsy, wheelchair athletes, visual impairment, and les autres. Each Paralympic sport then had its own classifications, depending on the physical demands of the competition. Events were given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event, some sports, such as athletics, divided athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities. Other sports, such as swimming, grouped competitors from different categories together, athletes may have competed against individuals with different classifications in the same event. For example, track and field athlete Jim Bob Bizzell competed in the mens 200 meters T44, although he finished behind Oscar Pistorius, Bizell set a world record in the T44 classification. For specific classification information, see the pages for individual sports at 2008 Summer Paralympics#Sports, the following American athletes won medals at the games, all dates are for September 2008. In the by discipline sections below, medalists names are in bold, the American archery team consisted of seven men and one woman. The highest placed finishers were Lindsey Carmichael and Jeff Fabry, who won a bronze medal. T. J. Pemberton and Joe Bailey competed against each other in the quarterfinals of the individual compound open. The American track and field team consisted of 26 men and 17 women, among them was shot putter Scott Winkler, a U. S. Army veteran who was paralyzed in Tikrit, Iraq in 2003 after he fell off a truck while holding 50 pounds of ammunition. The team set six world records and won a total of nine gold, fourteen silver, jessica Galli won five medals, more than any other team member, while Amanda McGrory, Tatyana McFadden, and Jim Bob Bizzell each won at least three medals. Jeremy Campbell was the only U. S. track and field athlete to win two golds. S, boccia team consisted of a single competitor, T. J. Hawker. Hawker lost his four pool matches and did not advance to the knock-out stage
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Karissa Whitsell and
Mackenzie Woodring (pilot) compete in Beijing on September 07, 2008
United States at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
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Canada at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
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Canada sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. 143 Canadian athletes competed in 17 sports, Canada also sent several officials to the games, including Tara Grieve in boccia and Andrew Smith in rowing. Canada finished seventh on the table at the Beijing games after finishing third on the medal table at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. Swimmer Donovan Tildesley, a world record-holder and medalist at the 2000 and 2004 Paralympics, was the flag bearer at the opening ceremony. The delegation is headed by Chef de Mission Debbie Low, among the Canadians participating in track and field athletics will be Jeff Adams, André Beaudoin, Jason Dunkerley, Tracey Ferguson, and Chantal Petitclerc. Ferguson is also a member of the wheelchair basketball team. Several Canadian boccia players will compete at the Beijing games, including Tammy McLeod, Canada sent both womens and mens goalball teams to Beijing. Canada will send athletes to compete in the newly added Paralympic sport of rowing. The Canadian mens and womens basketball teams will compete at the games. Both teams are currently champions in the sport. On the womens roster is Tracey Ferguson, also competing in athletics, the mens team includes Patrick Anderson. Canada will send a wheelchair rugby team to Beijing, included on the team roster is David Willsie of London, Ontario. 2008 Summer Paralympics Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Official Site International Paralympic Committee Full list of Canadian athletes at the Beijing Paralympics
Canada at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
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Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
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Great Britain competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, Peoples Republic of China. Great Britain sent a delegation of around 400, of which 212 were athletes, additionally some British overseas territories compete separately from Britain in Paralympic competition. Britain finished second in the table, behind host nation China, winning 42 gold medals and 102 total medals. The number of won was an increase on the 94 medals and 35 golds in Athens. The team was the most successful in two decades, with 80 different athletes winning at least one medal, the United Kingdom was the next host of the Summer Paralympics, holding the 2012 Games in London. Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event, the following British competitors won medals at the games, all dates are September 2008. In the by discipline sections below, medallists names are in bold, † Shelly Woods was initially awarded the silver medal in the athletics, womens 5000 m T54. However a re-run of the race was ordered by the International Paralympic Committee after the result was protested, the following competitors won multiple medals at the 2008 Paralympic Games. In July 2008, UK Sport, the responsible for the distribution of National Lottery funding to elite sport. It identified a 112 stretch medal target and expected to win 95 of them, the athletes met the expectations of UK Sport for total medals, gold medals and medal table position, finishing second behind hosts China with 42 gold and 102 total medals. Great Britains archery squad for the Games included twelve athletes, in all, four archery medals, two gold, one silver and one bronze, were won by British archers, which meant that they finished second in the archery medal table. John Stubbs, a former England disabled cricketer, set a new record score of 691 in the ranking round on the route to victory in the mens individual compound open. In the equivalet womens event Danielle Brown beat compatriot, and eventual bronze medallist, Mel Clarke before going on to win the gold. David Weir failed in his attempts to win five medals at the Games after suffering from a virus. British participants were involved in a number of controversies regarding the reallocation of medals during the Games, when the race was rerun Woods won the bronze medal. The decision was controversial given that Chin had already been assessed earlier in the Games whilst she competed in the womens F37–38 shot put final. Men—Track Men—Field Women—Track Women—Field * Originally awarded the medal but stripped of medal
Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
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Double gold medallist Jody Cundy
Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
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John McFall, bronze medallist in the men's 100 m T42
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David Wetherill competed in the men's C6 event
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2008 Summer Paralympics
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The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games, the thirteenth Paralympics, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17,2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao,3,951 athletes from 146 countries took part. This was the largest ever number of nations at the Paralympics, China fielded more athletes than any other country. The slogan for the 2008 Paralympics was the same as the 2008 Summer Olympics, One World, China dominated the medal count finishing with 89 gold medals and 211 total medals, more than double the next-ranked NPC in both cases. 339 Paralympic records and 279 world records were broken, international Paralympic Committee President Philip Craven declared the Games the greatest Paralympic Games ever. Nineteen competition venues—seventeen in Beijing, one in Hong Kong, the red, blue, and green in the emblem represent sun, sky, and earth. The slogan was the same as the 2008 Summer Olympics, One World, the mascot was a cartoon cow named Fu Niu Lele, roughly meaning Lucky Ox Happy. The theme song was Flying with the Dream Chinese, 和梦一起飞 and it was performed by Chinese-Tibetan singer Han Hong and Hong Kong singer and actor Andy Lau. The torch relay of the 2008 Summer Paralympics started from Tian Tan on August 28, the flame then gathered before The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests and followed two routes. Both routes returned to Beijing on September 5, and the torch was flamed at the National Stadium during the Opening Ceremony on September 6, the opening ceremony took place on September 6,2008. The pre-ceremony performance was a succession of musical performances, ranging from military music to folk music. Following a countdown, a fireworks display signalled the beginning of the ceremony proper, the national flag of China was then raised, in accordance with usual protocol, and the national anthem of China performed. Performers wearing suits in bright colours paraded round the stadium, as a ceremony preceding the athletes entry. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, the ceremony included a parade of nations, countries with the same number of strokes in the first character are sorted by those of the next character. This made Guinea the first country to enter as it takes two strokes to write the first character in the countrys name, the ceremony concludes with Hou Bin, the high jump gold medalist with one leg lighting the flame cauldron. The 2008 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony was held at the Beijing National Stadium and it began at 8,00 pm China Standard Time on September 17,2008. Twenty sports were on the program, Rowing made its first appearance in the Paralympics at these games, the following National Paralympic Committees sent delegations to compete. Burundi, Gabon, Georgia, Haiti and Montenegro were participating in the Paralympics for the first time, botswana was due to take part, but its single athlete, defending Paralympic champion sprinter Tshotlego Morama, withdrew prior to the Games due to injury
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Iran v
South Africa in
wheelchair basketball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.
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"Sky, Earth, and Human Beings", emblem of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games
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The
Beijing National Stadium
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Fu Niu Lele, mascot of the 2008 Summer Paralympics
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Wheelchair basketball
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Wheelchair basketball is basketball played by people with varying physical disabilities that disqualify them from playing an able-bodied sport. These include spina bifida, birth defects, cerebral palsy, paralysis due to accident, amputations, the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation is the governing body for this sport. It is recognized by the International Paralympic Committee as the competent authority in wheelchair basketball worldwide. FIBA has recognized IWBF under Article 53 of its General Statutes, the IWBF has 82 National Organizations for Wheelchair Basketball actively participating in wheelchair basketball throughout the world, with this number increasing each year. It is estimated more than 100,000 people play wheelchair basketball from recreation to club play. Wheelchair basketball is played by boys, girls, men and women, Wheelchair basketball is included in the Paralympic Games. The Wheelchair Basketball World Championship is played two years after every Paralympic Games, major competition in wheelchair basketball comes from Canada, Australia, the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Japan. In 1944, Ludwig Guttmann, through the program at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital, in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. It was known as wheelchair netball, at around the same times, starting from 1946, wheelchair basketball games were played primarily between American World War II disabled veterans. This began in the United States at the University of Illinois, dr. Timothy Nugent founded the National Wheelchair Basketball Association in 1949 and served as Commissioner for the first 25 years. The Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Games, held in 1947, were the first games to be held and included only a handful of participants, growth in both the number of wheelchair events and participants came quickly. Wheelchair netball was introduced in the 1948 Games, in 1952, a team from the Netherlands was invited to compete with the British team. This became the first International Stoke-Mandeville Games, an event that has been held ever since. Wheelchair basketball, as we know it now, was first played at the 1956 International Stoke-Mandeville Games, the US Pan Am Jets team won the tournament. In 1973, the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation established the first sub-section for wheelchair basketball, at that time ISMGF was the world governing body for all wheelchair sports. In 1989 ISMGF accepted for its former wheelchair basketball sub-section to be named International Wheelchair Basketball Federation, full independence came in 1993 with the IWBF becoming the world body for wheelchair basketball with full responsibility for development of the sport. World championships for the sport have been held since 1973, with Bruges, the first world championship for men was won by Great Britain. Of the first 11 mens world championships, six were won by the United States, Canada has won four of the womens world championship titles, and the United States two
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Wheelchair basketball game
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Competitors in the 2012
Euroleague tournament
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Australian women's wheelchair basketballer
Amanda Carter challenging for the ball in a game against the USA at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games
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South Africa
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South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa, is the southernmost country in Africa. South Africa is the 25th-largest country in the world by land area and it is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World or the Eastern Hemisphere. About 80 percent of South Africans are of Sub-Saharan African ancestry, divided among a variety of ethnic groups speaking different Bantu languages, the remaining population consists of Africas largest communities of European, Asian, and multiracial ancestry. South Africa is a multiethnic society encompassing a variety of cultures, languages. Its pluralistic makeup is reflected in the recognition of 11 official languages. The country is one of the few in Africa never to have had a coup détat, however, the vast majority of black South Africans were not enfranchised until 1994. During the 20th century, the black majority sought to recover its rights from the dominant white minority, with this struggle playing a role in the countrys recent history. The National Party imposed apartheid in 1948, institutionalising previous racial segregation, since 1994, all ethnic and linguistic groups have held political representation in the countrys democracy, which comprises a parliamentary republic and nine provinces. South Africa is often referred to as the Rainbow Nation to describe the multicultural diversity. The World Bank classifies South Africa as an economy. Its economy is the second-largest in Africa, and the 34th-largest in the world, in terms of purchasing power parity, South Africa has the seventh-highest per capita income in Africa. However, poverty and inequality remain widespread, with about a quarter of the population unemployed, nevertheless, South Africa has been identified as a middle power in international affairs, and maintains significant regional influence. The name South Africa is derived from the geographic location at the southern tip of Africa. Upon formation the country was named the Union of South Africa in English, since 1961 the long form name in English has been the Republic of South Africa. In Dutch the country was named Republiek van Zuid-Afrika, replaced in 1983 by the Afrikaans Republiek van Suid-Afrika, since 1994 the Republic has had an official name in each of its 11 official languages. Mzansi, derived from the Xhosa noun umzantsi meaning south, is a name for South Africa. South Africa contains some of the oldest archaeological and human fossil sites in the world, extensive fossil remains have been recovered from a series of caves in Gauteng Province. The area is a UNESCO World Heritage site and has termed the Cradle of Humankind
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Mapungubwe Hill, the site of the former capital of the
Kingdom of Mapungubwe
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Flag
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Arrival of
Jan van Riebeeck, the first European to settle in South Africa, with
Devil's Peak in the background
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Depiction of a
Zulu attack on a Boer camp in February 1838
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Iran
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Iran, also known as Persia, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, is a sovereign state in Western Asia. Comprising a land area of 1,648,195 km2, it is the second-largest country in the Middle East, with 82.8 million inhabitants, Iran is the worlds 17th-most-populous country. It is the country with both a Caspian Sea and an Indian Ocean coastline. The countrys central location in Eurasia and Western Asia, and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran is the countrys capital and largest city, as well as its leading economic and cultural center. Iran is the site of to one of the worlds oldest civilizations, the area was first unified by the Iranian Medes in 625 BC, who became the dominant cultural and political power in the region. The empire collapsed in 330 BC following the conquests of Alexander the Great, under the Sassanid Dynasty, Iran again became one of the leading powers in the world for the next four centuries. Beginning in 633 AD, Arabs conquered Iran and largely displaced the indigenous faiths of Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism by Islam, Iran became a major contributor to the Islamic Golden Age that followed, producing many influential scientists, scholars, artists, and thinkers. During the 18th century, Iran reached its greatest territorial extent since the Sassanid Empire, through the late 18th and 19th centuries, a series of conflicts with Russia led to significant territorial losses and the erosion of sovereignty. Popular unrest culminated in the Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1906, which established a monarchy and the countrys first legislative body. Following a coup instigated by the U. K. Growing dissent against foreign influence and political repression led to the 1979 Revolution, Irans rich cultural legacy is reflected in part by its 21 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the third-largest number in Asia and 11th-largest in the world. Iran is a member of the UN, ECO, NAM, OIC. Its political system is based on the 1979 Constitution which combines elements of a democracy with a theocracy governed by Islamic jurists under the concept of a Supreme Leadership. A multicultural country comprising numerous ethnic and linguistic groups, most inhabitants are Shia Muslims, the largest ethnic groups in Iran are the Persians, Azeris, Kurds and Lurs. Historically, Iran has been referred to as Persia by the West, due mainly to the writings of Greek historians who called Iran Persis, meaning land of the Persians. As the most extensive interactions the Ancient Greeks had with any outsider was with the Persians, however, Persis was originally referred to a region settled by Persians in the west shore of Lake Urmia, in the 9th century BC. The settlement was then shifted to the end of the Zagros Mountains. In 1935, Reza Shah requested the international community to refer to the country by its native name, opposition to the name change led to the reversal of the decision, and Professor Ehsan Yarshater, editor of Encyclopædia Iranica, propagated a move to use Persia and Iran interchangeably
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Cave painting in Doushe cave,
Lorestan, Iran,
8th millennium BC
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Flag
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A depiction of the united
Medes and
Persians in
Apadana,
Persepolis
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Ruins of the
Gate of All Nations,
Persepolis
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Wheelchair Basketball
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Wheelchair basketball is basketball played by people with varying physical disabilities that disqualify them from playing an able-bodied sport. These include spina bifida, birth defects, cerebral palsy, paralysis due to accident, amputations, the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation is the governing body for this sport. It is recognized by the International Paralympic Committee as the competent authority in wheelchair basketball worldwide. FIBA has recognized IWBF under Article 53 of its General Statutes, the IWBF has 82 National Organizations for Wheelchair Basketball actively participating in wheelchair basketball throughout the world, with this number increasing each year. It is estimated more than 100,000 people play wheelchair basketball from recreation to club play. Wheelchair basketball is played by boys, girls, men and women, Wheelchair basketball is included in the Paralympic Games. The Wheelchair Basketball World Championship is played two years after every Paralympic Games, major competition in wheelchair basketball comes from Canada, Australia, the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Japan. In 1944, Ludwig Guttmann, through the program at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital, in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. It was known as wheelchair netball, at around the same times, starting from 1946, wheelchair basketball games were played primarily between American World War II disabled veterans. This began in the United States at the University of Illinois, dr. Timothy Nugent founded the National Wheelchair Basketball Association in 1949 and served as Commissioner for the first 25 years. The Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Games, held in 1947, were the first games to be held and included only a handful of participants, growth in both the number of wheelchair events and participants came quickly. Wheelchair netball was introduced in the 1948 Games, in 1952, a team from the Netherlands was invited to compete with the British team. This became the first International Stoke-Mandeville Games, an event that has been held ever since. Wheelchair basketball, as we know it now, was first played at the 1956 International Stoke-Mandeville Games, the US Pan Am Jets team won the tournament. In 1973, the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation established the first sub-section for wheelchair basketball, at that time ISMGF was the world governing body for all wheelchair sports. In 1989 ISMGF accepted for its former wheelchair basketball sub-section to be named International Wheelchair Basketball Federation, full independence came in 1993 with the IWBF becoming the world body for wheelchair basketball with full responsibility for development of the sport. World championships for the sport have been held since 1973, with Bruges, the first world championship for men was won by Great Britain. Of the first 11 mens world championships, six were won by the United States, Canada has won four of the womens world championship titles, and the United States two
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Wheelchair basketball game
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Competitors in the 2012
Euroleague tournament
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Australian women's wheelchair basketballer
Amanda Carter challenging for the ball in a game against the USA at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games
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Dylan Alcott
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Dylan Martin Alcott, OAM is an Australian wheelchair basketballer, wheelchair tennis player and motivational speaker. Alcott was a member of the Australian Rollers wheelchair basketball team, at the age of 17 he became the youngest ever gold medal winner for wheelchair basketball, and was the youngest to compete in the Wheelchair Basketball competition. In 2014, he returned to wheelchair tennis with the aiming of participating at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, he won gold medals in the Mens Quad Singles and Doubles. He was named the 2016 Australian Paralympian of the Year due to his achievements at Rio Paralympics. Alcott was born in Melbourne to parents Martin and Resie and he has an older brother Zack. He was born with a tumor wrapped around his spinal cord which was operated on during the first few weeks of his life, the tumor was successfully cut out, however it left Alcott a paraplegic, leaving him a wheelchair user for the rest of his life. Alcott attended Brighton Grammar School from grade 6, and quickly developed a love for sport, and competed for Victoria in swimming, Alcott graduated Brighton Grammar school in 2008 as a prefect, and is now a member of their school Hall of Fame. Alcotts first sport of choice was wheelchair tennis, where he represented Australia on numerous occasions, Alcott played his first game of wheelchair basketball at 14 years and 6 months. He was encouraged to play due to his 6’4” arms. Alcott made his debut for the rollers in the VISA paralympic world cup and he continued to hold his spot and was a member of the Rollers who travelled to the Beijing warm up tournament in January 2008. He has made his name in basketball through his performances in the national league competition, competing for the Dandenong Rangers. He has achieved success through junior competition as well, being named the Most Valuable Player at the Junior National Basketball Championships. He was part of the medal winning Australia mens national wheelchair basketball team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. In his first Paralympics Dylan was quoted, To be 17, well it just doesnt get any better than that. After one year of study, he decided to back to Melbourne to train for the 2012 London Paralympic Games. In 2010, Alcott was a part of the Rollers success at the 2010 World Championships in Birmingham and it was the first world championship the Australian wheelchair basketball team had ever won, and Alcott was named in the World All Star 5 for the tournament. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he was part of the Australian mens wheelchair team that won silver, in 2014, Alcott returned to wheelchair tennis, his first real love. At the age of 16, he was ranked inside the top five juniors in the world, in July 2014, he defeated beat world number three Andy Lapthorne 7–5 6–1 in the British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championship final in Nottingham to win his first Super Series crown
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2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Alcott
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Alcott in a game versus Great Britain
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Alcott during the Swiss open 2014 in Geneva
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Justin Eveson
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Justin Cain Eveson, OAM is an Australian swimmer and wheelchair basketball player who has won Paralympic medals in both sports. Eveson was born on 10 June 1980, and is from the Perth suburb of Victoria Park, in 1993, when he was 12 years old, his right leg was amputated below the knee after a lawn aerating machine accident. Prior to his accident, he had played basketball, in 2010, he was the patron for the Australian University Games. He works as an instructor, and his personal hero is his father. He also serves as the Membership and Participation Officer for Wheelchair Sports Western Australia, outside of competitive basketball and swimming, he plays golf. Eveson first started competing in disabled sport in 1995, doing swimming, around that time, he decided to focus on swimming. From 1996 to 1999, he was part of the Wheelchair Sports WA Association Junior Sports Star program as a swimmer and he competed the 2000 Summer Paralympics, where he won a 4 ×100 m freestyle relay silver and 4 ×100 m medley relay bronze medal. Evesons player classification is 4.5 and he plays power forward, evson first started playing wheelchair basketball in 1995. His ability to play has been supported by the Western Australian Institute of Sport Individual Athlete Support Program, in 2009, the basketball teams that Eveson played for won every tournament he was part of at a club and national team level. In 2002, Eveson made his first appearance on the Australia mens national basketball team. He was the leading scorer. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he was part of the Australian mens wheelchair team that won silver, in 2006, Eveson was part of the squad that won a bronze medal at the World Championships. In 2008, he was part of the team took silver at the Beijing Paralympic test event. That year, he was the captain of the gold winning Australian side at the Paralympic World Cup held in Manchester, in 2009, he was part of the Australian gold winning IWBF Asia-Oceania Championship side and the 2009 Rollers World Challenge team that won gold. At the tournament, he scored 25 points, had 5 assists and 13 rebounds and he was a member of the Australia mens national wheelchair basketball team that competed at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship that won a gold medal. He and fellow Australian team mate Shaun Norris were recognised for their performance at the tournament by being named as one of the World All-Star Five for the tournament and he was a member of the Rollers team that won the gold medal at the 2014 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships. Eveson has played wheelchair basketball in Australia, Italy, Spain. In 2001, Eveson made his club debut with the National Wheelchair Basketball League s Perth Wheelcats
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2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Eveson
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Action shot of Eveson during the 200 m medley SM10 at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
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Michael Hartnett (basketball)
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Michael Mathew Hartnett, OAM is an Australian wheelchair basketball player who won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and the 2010 and 2014 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship. Hartnett was born on 3 June 1982, and is from the Perth suburb of Gosnells and he became a paraplegic after a car accident. He is a student, and his model is Brad Ness. One of his hobbies is collecting flight tags connected to flights he made while competing in wheelchair basketball and he also loves to learn new languages, like French and Italian. Hartnett is classified as a 1.0 to 1.5 player and he started playing wheelchair basketball in 1991. His ability to play wheelchair basketball has been supported by the Western Australian Institute of Sport Individual Athlete Support Program, Hartnett made Australias national team for the first time in 1997 when he played for the junior team at the Junior Games held in Victoria, Australia. Hartnett was part of the medal winning Australia mens national wheelchair basketball team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he was part of the Australian mens wheelchair team that won silver, Hartnett was part of the 2006 national squad that won silver at the FESPIC Games. He was also part of the 2007 squad that competed at the Paralympic World Cup that won a silver medal and that year, he also competed as part of the national team at the Great Britain Series. In 2008, he was part of the team took silver at the Beijing Paralympic test event. In 2009, he was part of the Australian gold winning IWBF Asia-Oceania Championship side, at the Rollers World Challenge, he was named as one of the competitions All-Star Five. He was a member of the Australia mens national basketball team that competed at the 2010 and 2014 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships that won gold medals. Hartnett plays club basketball for the Perth Wheelcats of the Australian National Wheelchair Basketball League, in 2006 and 2007, he was part of the teams that won the NWBL Championship. He was also part of the 2007 Wheelcats squad that won the World Club Championship, in 2010, he was playing club basketball with Lottomattica Elecom of Rome, Italy. In 2011, he played his club basketball for the Wheelcats and his Perth Wheelcats lost to the Wollongong Roller Hawks in the 2011 NWBL Championship
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2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Hartnett
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Michael Hartnett of Australia (middle) and Ade Oregembe of Great Britain (left). Australia vs Great Britain Mens National Wheelchair Basketball Team, 19 July 2012, Sydney's Olympic Park.
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Tristan Knowles
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Tristan Malcolm Knowles, OAM is an Australian wheelchair basketball player. Knowles was born on 25 April 1983 in Wodonga, Victoria and he became an above the knee amputee as a result of cancer. He went to the University of Wollongong where he earned a degree in commerce, when not playing basketball, he is a paraplanner working for the Commonwealth Bank. Knowless first played basketball in 1999. Knowless played for the New South Wales U21 state team in the national competition, the state U21 team won the national championships four years in a row with Knowles as the captain. Knowles s first appearance on the team was in 2001. Knowles was part of the medal winning Australia mens national wheelchair basketball team at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. He was also part of the medal winning Australia mens national wheelchair basketball team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. In October 2011, Knowles was named as part of the national squad that would compete at the Paralympic qualifying tournament for the 2012 Summer Paralympics. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he was part of the Australian mens wheelchair team that won silver, in 2016, he was selected for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, his fourth games, where his team, The Rollers, finished sixth. Knowles was part of the 2006 national squad finished third at the World Championships. In 2009, he was part of the side that competed at the Rollers World Challenge. In the match against Japan, he scored 15 points and he was a member of the Australia mens national wheelchair basketball team win the gold medal at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship and 2014 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships. Knowles has played wheelchair basketball in Australia, Spain and Italy. As of 2011 has played with the Wollongong Roller Hawks for 11 years, when playing for the Roller Hawks, he wears the number 9. In 2003, the Wollongong Roller Hawks, competed in the NWBL Championship, in the first game of the 2011 season against the Perth Wheelcats, he scored 44 points. His team went on to beat the Perth Wheelcats in the 2011 NWBL Championship, in the finals game, he scored 48 points. In 2010, Knowles was playing basketball with Valladolid in Spain
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2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Knowles
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Tristan Knowles swaps a wheel mid-match during the 2010 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship
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Grant Mizens
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Grant Karlus Mizens, OAM is an Australian wheelchair basketball player. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales and he is classified as a 2.0 player and plays guard. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he was part of the Australian mens wheelchair team that won silver and he was a member of the national team that competed at the 2009 IWBF Asia Oceania Championships. He was a member of the Australia mens national basketball team that competed at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship that won a gold medal. Mizens plays club basketball for the West Sydney Razorbacks, in 2010, he was playing club basketball with the Wenty League Wheelkings
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2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Mizens
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Mizens warming up
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Shaun Norris
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Shaun Daryl Norris, OAM is an Australian wheelchair basketball player. Norris is from the Perth suburb of Alexander Heights, and was born on 2 April 1985 and he became a paraplegic after a car accident. The most influential person in his life is Ben Ettridge, norriss wheelchair basketball classification is 3.0, and he is a shooting guard. His ability to play wheelchair basketball has been supported by the Western Australian Institute of Sport Individual Athlete Support Program, when competing for the national team, Norris wears number 7. Norris was part of the medal winning Australia mens national wheelchair basketball team at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. He was also part of the medal winning Australia mens national wheelchair basketball team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he was part of the Australian mens wheelchair team that won silver, Norris was chosen to be a part of the team sent to represent Australia at the 2016 Paralympics where they finished sixth. In 2003, he competed at the Kitakyushu Champions Cup in Japan, in 2004, he was part of the squad that came in first place at the Roosevelt Cup. In 2006, he was named as part of the World All-Star 5 for the 2006 Gold Cup tournament and he was part of the 2007 squad that competed at the Paralympic World Cup. In 2008, he was part of the team took silver at the Beijing Paralympic test event. In 2009, he was part of the Australian squad that won a medal at the IWBF Asia-Oceania Championship. In the final game of the tournament, in a game versus Japan and that year, he also won a gold medal as part of the team that competed at the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester, England. In 2009, he was part of the side that competed at the Rollers World Challenge. He was a member of the Australia mens national basketball team that competed at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship that won a gold medal. He and fellow Australian team mate Justin Eveson were recognised for their performance at the tournament by being named as one of the World All-Star Five for the tournament and he was a member of the Rollers team that won the gold medal at the 2014 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships. In 2016, he was selected for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Norris plays his club basketball for the Perth Wheelcats. In 2002, he played basketball for the Perth Wheelcats of Australias National Wheelchair Basketball League. That year, the won the league championship, and he was named the Most Valuable Player for the Finals series
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2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Norris
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Troy Sachs
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Troy Sachs, OAM is an Australian wheelchair basketball player. He competed at five Paralympic Games from 1992 to 2008, where he won three medals, Sachs was born in the Wollongong suburb of Bulli on 3 December 1975. He was born without a tibia and with a foot. In 2006, Sachs had shoulder surgery and required extensive rehabilitation that threatened to derail his ability to compete in the 2008 Paralympics. On 11 August 2010, Sachs competed in the 14-kilometre Sydney City2Surf competitions and he is the founder and director of Team Sachs, a fitness business, which he established in 1997, and has been on the board of directors of the Australian Paralympic Committee since 2008. He is married to but separated from wheelchair basketballer Jane Sachs, Sachs wheelchair basketball classification is 4.5 and his position is centre. He started playing basketball in 1991, at the age of 15. Sachs made his first team appearance for the Australia mens national basketball team in 1992. In 1998, he competed at the World Championships, where the Rollers finished fourth, in 2002, he was part of the Australian national side that finished fourth at the World Championships. In 2004, he was part of the Australian team that finished first at the Roosevelt Cup, Sachs was part of the gold medal winning team at the Kiakyushu Cup held in Japan in 2005. He did not compete for the team at the 2005 Paralympic World Cup due to European club commitments. At the 1996 Games, in the medal match, Sachs scored 42 points. At the 2000 and 2004 games, Sachs captained the Australian national team, at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing, he led his team in total scoring across the whole of the competition, with a score of 72–60 when the team defeated Canada. In the tournament, he averaged 5.4 points a game, Sachs was the only 2008 team member who had also been on the 1996 gold medal winning team. In 1998, Sachs competed for the West Sydney Slicks, where he helped guide the team to a league championship, from 1998 to 2001, he was the Australian National Wheelchair Basketball Leagues MVP, part of the All Star Five, and highest scorer. In 2001 he helped the West Sydney Razorbacks win the championship, in 2002, he was once again named to the NWBL All-Star Five. In 2008, Sachs played for the West Sydney Razorbacks, in 2003, Sachs helped the RSC Rollis Zwickau become the German Cup Champions. Sachs played with the Italian club side Tabu Cantu in 2001 and 2002, in 2001, he helped guide to team to a first-place finish in the European League and the following year, to a third-place finish
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Sachs in the gold medal game against Great Britain at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics
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Sachs takes a free throw as part of the Australian men's wheelchair basketball team at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
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Tige Simmons
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Tige Arthur Simmons, OAM is an Australian wheelchair basketball player who represented Australia in the 2008,2012 and 2016 Paralympic Games. Simmons became a paraplegic due to a motorbike accident and he was part of the gold medal winning Australia mens national wheelchair basketball team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. He was a member of the Australia mens national basketball team that competed at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship that won a gold medal. He plays his club basketball for the Brisbane Spinning Bullets in Queensland and he plays as a guard and is classified as a 1.0 player. In 2010, he was playing basketball with the Brisbane Spinning Bullets. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he was part of the Australian mens wheelchair team that won silver, in 2016, he was selected for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro where his team, The Rollers, finished sixth. Australian Paralympic Committee Profile Basketball Australia Profile
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2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Simmons
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Brett Stibners
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Brett Andrew Stibners, OAM is an Australian wheelchair basketball player who won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship. Stibners was born on 25 June 1979, and is from the Wollongong suburb of Oak Flats and he is a full-time athlete, and is nicknamed Sticky. His left leg was amputated above the knee after a car accident, in 2001 when the car he was driving collided with a truck. Prior to his accident, he worked as an apprentice electrician, Stibners is classified as a 4.0 player and is a forward. He first started playing basketball in 2003. In 2010, he was the recipient of a A$10,000 grant by WorkCover NSW to enable him to worry less about money and he used the money to cover training and travel expenses, and to maintain his wheelchair. He was at a press appearance announcing funding for Paralympic sport in March 2011, at the event, he played wheelchair basketball with then New South Wales Premiere Kristina Keneally. Stibners first represented Australia on the level in 2006. Stibners was part of the medal winning Australia mens national wheelchair basketball team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he was part of the Australian mens wheelchair team that won silver, in 2016, he was selected for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro where his team, The Rollers, finished sixth. In 2003, Stibners was a member of the squad that competed at the Gold Cup in Amsterdam. This was his first international appearance, in 2007, he was part of the gold medal winning team at the Arafura Games. In 2009, he was part of the squad that won gold at the Rollers World Challenge. He was a member of the Australia mens national basketball team that competed at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship that won a gold medal. Stibners started playing basketball in 2002 for the Wollongong Roller Hawks of Australias National Wheelchair Basketball League. He is classified as a 4.0 player and plays as a forward, in 2003, he won a league championship with the team. In 2007, he played basketball in Spain for CD Fundosa Group. In 2010, he was playing basketball with Wollongong Rollerhawks
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Portrait of Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketballer Stibners in 2012
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Great Britain vs Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team at Gliders & Rollers World Challenge on 21 July 2012. Aussie 6 Brett Stibners and 9 Tristan Knowles. GB no 10 is Abdi Jama
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Terence Bywater
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Terrance Terry Bywater is a British wheelchair basketball player. Bywater was born on 28 February 1983 in Dormanstown, England and currently lives in Cleveland, as of 2009, he weighs 74 kilograms and is 1.8 metres tall. He was born without a tibia and a fibula in his left leg and he has a son, Benjamin Bywater. Bywater began playing basketball at the age of 13 at an open day in Middlesbrough with the Teesside Lions. After playing for a year, he was selected for the Great Britain Under-23 team and he made his debut at the Sydney 2000 Summer Paralympics, and finished fourth. He participated in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, where he won a bronze medal and he currently plays for the Sheffield Steelers. He once played for C. D. Fundosa in Spain, Bywater returned to England so he could play with the Super League Club Sheffield Steelers throughout the 2011—12 season. He is a 4.5 point player and his first championships were the 2001/2002 European Championships in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he finished fourth. In 2002 he went to the World Championships in Kitakyushu in Japan and he participated in the 2003 European Championships in Sassari, Italy, and won bronze. He competed in the 2005 European Championships in Paris, France and he competed in the 2006 World Championships in Amsterdam and was fifth place, and in 2007 he participated in the European Championships in Wetzlar, Netherlands, and received a silver medal. Two years later, he won bronze in the European Championships of Adana in Turkey, in 2010, for the first time, he participated in the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Birmingham, and was fifth place. He won gold in the 2011 European Championships in Nazareth, Israel, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the wheelchair basketball team lost to the United States, and finished in fourth position, after losing to Canada, missing out of the finals. He said that not winning a medal at the Paralympics was the worst moment of his career
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Terry Bywater at Gliders & Rollers World Challenge on 21 July 2012
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Ade Orogbemi
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Ade Orogbemi is a British wheelchair basketball player. He was selected to play for Team GB in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, Orogbemi was born in Lagos in Nigeria on 11 May 1978. He currently lives at Liverpool, Merseyside, Orogbemi grew up in East London after moving from Lagos. In 2009 he was jailed for six months for claiming £33,000 worth of housing benefit, council tax benefit and he admitted to three accounts of fraud. In 1997, Orogbemi was stopped on the streets by the coach of the East London Bullets, ever since then, he has competed in wheelchair basketball. After moving to Liverpool, he played for such as Liverpool Greenbank, Tameside Owls. He has also played with Toledo, a Spanish wheelchair basketball team, Orogbemi has been classed as a 2.5 player. In 2001, he played in his first championship, the European Championships, along with his team, he was fourth place. In 2003, Orogbemi played at the European Championships in Sassari, Italy, two years later, he was in Paris, France in the 2005 European Championships, and won silver with his team. He played his first World Championships in 2006, in Amsterdam, the following year, he participated in his first Paralympics, the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games, held in Beijing. Along with Team GB, he finished in the medal position. In 2010, at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Birmingham,2011 saw Orogbemis first victory, at the European Championships in Nazareth, Israel
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Orogbemi at Gliders & Rollers World Challenge on 21 July 2012.
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Jon Pollock
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Jon Pollock is a British wheelchair basketball player. He was selected to train with the British wheelchair basketball squad in 1992 and he won a bronze medal at the 2004 Paralympics and the 2008 Paralympic Games. Pollock was born on 11 May 1977 in Liverpool, England with Spina bifida and he currently lives in Wigan, Greater Manchester in north west England. Pollock is a class 2.5 wheelchair basketball player and currently plays for the RGK TCAT Rhinos of Wolverhampton and he has been competing in wheelchair basketball for over twenty years. In his twenty-year career, he has represented Team GB and Paralympics GB four times at various Summer Paralympic Games, Pollock first competed at the 1997 European Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Madrid, Spain winning silver. Two years later, he played in the 1999 European Championships in Roermond and he ended in fourth place with his team. In 2000, he was a member of Team GB in the 2000 Summer Paralympic Games, held in Sydney, along with his team, they finished in fourth place, out of the medals. In 2001–02, he finished in place at the 2001/2002 European championships in Amsterdam. In the 2002 World Championships, he won silver, in Kitakyushu and he participated in the 2003 European Championships, in Sassari, Italy. He won bronze in this event, in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece, he was in medal position. He finished, along with his team, in the medal position. Two years after the Paralympics, he was at the 2006 World Championships in Amsterdam, the following year, Pollock was at the 2007 European Championships, in Wetzlar, Netherlands. Along with his team, he finished in medal position. The following year, he was a member of the squad in the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games in Beijing, here, he won his second Paralympic bronze. In 2009 he won bronze in the European championships in Adana, in 2010, he finished fifth, along with his team, in the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships, held in Birmingham. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, Pollock and the GB team got through to the semi-finals after beating Turkey, but lost against Canada 52—69, keeping them out of medal position
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Australia v Great Britain at Sydney's Olympic Park. Pollock is in black/grey
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Alana Nichols
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Alana Jane Nichols is a Paralympic wheelchair basketball player and alpine skier from the United States. While growing up in Farmington in northern New Mexico, Nichols would spend winters snowboarding in Colorado, during one such snowboarding trip in 2000, she attempted a back flip but over-rotated and landed back-first on a rock. The subsequent injury broke her T10/11 vertebra, and left her paralyzed from the waist down, in 2002, Nichols was introduced to wheelchair basketball and quickly excelled at the sport. She received a scholarship to play with the University of Arizona and she later attended graduate school at the University of Alabama, eventually graduating with a masters degree in kinesiology. Her Paralympic debut came in 2008 when, as part of the U. S. womens team, one month after the Beijing Paralympics, Nichols moved from Alabama to Colorado to begin training in alpine skiing. She had tried adaptive skiing in 2002, but at the time had chosen to focus on basketball instead and she began practicing with the NSCD program and showed quick improvement. Her first win came in February 2009 when she beat Paralympic gold medalist Laurie Stephens to take first in the super-G at a North American Cup event in Kimberley, British Columbia. She won the event and placed third in the super combined at the U. S. Adaptive Nationals later that year. In March 2010, she completed her first IPC Alpine World Cup season with a first place in the downhill, second in super combined, and third in super-G. Later in March, she competed in the 2010 Winter Paralympic Games in Vancouver, BC and she placed first in the downhill and the giant slalom, second in the super-G, and third in the super combined. Nichols is the first American woman with gold medals in the summer and winter games
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IPC Alpine World Championships. Women's Giant Slalom.
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Simone Kues
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Simone Kues is a German 1.0 point national wheelchair basketball player who plays in the wheelchair basketball league for Hamburg SV. She joined the team, and participated in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens. She won bronze at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Amsterdam in 2006 and her team were won the European championship in 2005,2007 and 2009. She won a medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. The womens national team were voted Team of the Year in disabled sports in 2008, Kues was born in Einbeck in Lower Saxony on 8 November 1976. She matriculated from the Paul-Gerhardt-Schule Dassel in 1996 and that same year she had a riding accident in Ireland, which resulted in paralysis. After rehab, she began studying psychology in Göttingen in 1998 and she graduated in 2007, and now works as a psychologist at the BG Trauma Hospital Hamburgs paraplegic centre. Kues first played basketball at the rehab clinic. She went on to play for ASC Göttingen, then with RBV Lüneburg and she joined the national team, and participated in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, at which the German team came fourth. She won bronze at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Amsterdam in 2006 and her team won the European championship in 2005,2007 and 2009, and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. The womens national team were voted Team of the Year in disabled sports in 2008, in June 2014, Kues rejoined the senior womens team for the 2014 Womens World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto, Canada. The German team won silver after being defeated by Canada in the final, the German team beat the Netherlands in the 2015 European Championships, to claim its tenth European title. At the 2016 Paralympic Games, it won silver after losing the final to the United States
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