The IWBF Govt Council gathered on 9 & 10 April 2022 on the Patrick Baumann Home of Basketball in Mies, Switzerland. The weekend was the primary time since November 2019 that the IWBF Govt Council had met in-person because of the COVID pandemic.
All members of the Govt Council had been current aside from the Asia Oceania Zone President Saad Alazmaa. Zone Secretary Generals and a consultant from the Gamers’ Fee had been additionally current as invited friends.
Throughout a fruitful two days of conferences at FIBA headquarters, experiences got from every of the Commissions and every of the Zones reflecting on their latest actions and plans for the 12 months forward.
Given the packed calendar of competitions scheduled for 2022 an summary of the preparations got for the 2022 IWBF World Championships, the IWBF Males’s U23 World Championship, in addition to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Video games the place 3×3 wheelchair basketball will make its debut. There was additionally an replace on the proposed qualification course of for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games, which is awaiting IPC suggestions and approval.
IWBF memberships proceed to develop with the approval of 4 new membership submissions as IWBF welcomed the Cameroonian Sport Federation for Bodily Disabled Individuals, Nationwide Paralympic Committee of Montenegro, Wheelchair Basketball Eswatini, and the Tunisian Federation of Sports activities for Disabled, taking its complete membership rely to 104 members.
Seeking to the longer term, the IWBF Govt Council agreed on the significance of a world technique and the choice was taken to launch a session course of that can inform and help in making a 10-year technique for the IWBF and the game of wheelchair basketball.
Throughout the weekend, IWBF President Ulf Mehrens and FIBA Secretary Basic Andreas Zagklis signed an addendum to the Memorandum of Understanding between the 2 federations relating to FIBA Advertising and marketing holding IWBF’s unique advertising rights.
The go to additionally supplied a possibility for the IWBF Govt Council to fulfill with a number of the members of the newly created IWBF Gamers’ Fee, who hosted their premier assembly on the Patrick Baumann Home of Basketball on Friday 8 April.
The meeting was the penultimate assembly of the present IWBF Govt Council forward of the 2022 IWBF World Congress the place elections shall be held to determine on a brand new Govt Council for the subsequent four-year cycle. Alongside the IWBF World Discussion board, the Congress will happen between 24 – 26 November throughout the IWBF 2022 World Championships hosted in Dubai, UAE.
