Wheelchair Basketball

Wheelchair basketball is one of the most popular wheelchair sports. It’s played by athletes with multiple types of disabilities, including: spinal cord injury, amputation, spina bifida, arthritis, knee problems, post-polio syndrome and cerebral palsy. A classification system, where athletes are assigned a number based on their level of disability (1.0 for the most disabled, going up in 0.5 increments to 4.5 for the least disabled), ensures that athletes of all types of disabilities can compete together.

Fun fact: in Canada, wheelchair basketball is an integrated sport, which means that able-bodied people can compete up to a provincial level. That means that you can get your family and friends involved in this fast-based, exciting sport.

In BC, wheelchair basketball is administered by BC Wheelchair Basketball Society.