IWBF have printed the brand new timeframe and Athlete Choice Course of that has been developed with the Commonwealth Video games Federation for the wheelchair basketball 3X3 competitors on the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Video games.
Along with the Zone locations gained by the South African males’s crew and South African ladies’s crew, Zone locations (one males’s and one ladies’s) are additionally accessible to each the Asia Oceania Zone and European Zone by way of their qualification occasions in Thailand and Scotland. From the Americas, a bipartite course of detailed within the Athlete Choice Course of shall be used to find out the boys’s and ladies’s groups progressing to Birmingham 2022.
England’s males’s and ladies’s groups have already certified because the host nation for the Commonwealth Video games this yr.
Two extra locations are then accessible as wild playing cards, the place IWBF will apply the bipartite standards to find out the ultimate males’s and ladies’s groups to hitch the host and people nations certified by way of the zonal course of.
That is the primary look of wheelchair basketball within the Commonwealth Video games programme and it is going to be delivered from 29 July to three August at Smithfields within the coronary heart of Birmingham, England. The 3X3 wheelchair basketball competitors shall be delivered along side the 3X3 operating sport, offering a platform of actual integration in occasion supply for the primary time on the world stage.
IWBF Chair of Competitors Fee, Charlie Bethel, stated:
“That is our first Commonwealth Video games and it’s shaping as much as be an amazing spectacle and celebration of the Basketball Household.
“With all of the challenges on the planet right now, it’s actually encouraging that we now have been in a position to retain a lot of the qualification system we had deliberate, and with the ultimate tweaks to the timeline, we’re assured that we are able to replicate the Commonwealth Video games spirit and present the world the transformational energy of wheelchair basketball.
“An enormous thanks to the Commonwealth Video games Federation and our members for his or her super help up to now.”
