[Music] similar format is running basketball except the players utilize wheelchairs to move around the court it's suitable for people with a wide range of disabilities including cerebral palsy congenital disabilities spina bifida polio paralysis and amputations this is a fast-paced game with two teams that have five players and seven substitutes on each like running basketball the goal is to shoot the basketball into the opposing team's basket to score a wheelchair basketball match is 40 minutes
total broken up into four periods of 10 minutes following a tied score at the end of the fourth period another period of five minutes is added to break the tie once each player has been given classification the total team balance that can be on the court at any time is 14.0 that means the total classification point of all five players must not exceed 14.0 points or else they may receive a technical the governing body responsible for outlining the rules of wheelchair basket ball is the internati
onal wheelchair basketball Federation iwbf wheelchair basketball equipment playing wheelchair basketball requires the ball and most importantly A specialized wheelchair a basketball wheelchair is manual meaning the player must Propel themselves by the push rims the players pass dribble and shoot the ball the official basketball of FIBA the paralympic games wheelchair basketball was first played at two USA World War II Veterans Administration hospitals Corona naval station California and Framingh
am Massachusetts in 1945 independently in 1948 British War veterans started playing wheelchair nut ball under Dr Ludwig Gutman jur at Stoke Manville Hospital the first national wheelchair basketball tournament was held in Illinois USA with six teams in 1949. in the same year the national wheelchair basketball association and WBA was formed in U.S it wasn't until the mid-1960s that wheelchair basketball for women began to emerge and in 1968 a women's team traveled to the Paralympics in Tel Aviv I
srael to compete alongside the U.S men's team but even then it would still be years until organized women's teams were formed to compete against each other in the U.S in 1978 an official women's division with six teams was formed competing in the National Tournament
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