IWBF Asia Oceania
IWBF Asia Oceania, on behalf of IWBF, promotes, supervises and directs the sport of wheelchair basketball within Asia Oceania. It strictly recognises the autonomy of each NOWB within its own territory, while following the policies of IWBF as established by the World Congress and the IWBF Executive Council.
IWBF Asia Oceania Executive Council
Saad Alazmaa, Kuwait – President | Email: saad.alazmaa@iwbf.org
Osamu Kotaki, Japan – Vice-President of East Asia
Ang Kean Koo, Malaysia – Vice-President of South East Asia
Mohammad Alkhazaleh, Jordan – Vice-President of West Asia
Lisa Chaffey, Australia – Vice-President of Oceania
Hourieh Baradaran, Iran – Vice-President of Central & South Asia
Phatt Krissana, Thailand – Treasurer
Toufic Allouche, Lebanon – Classification Officer
Matthew Wells, Australia – Technical Officer
Don Perriman, Australia – Asia Oceania Secretary General | Email: don.perriman@iwbf.org
ZONE MEMBERS
There are currently 26 NOWBs in the IWBF Asia Oceania these are:
Afghanistan
Australia
Bahrain
Cambodia
China
Chinese Taipei
Hong Kong
Indonesia
India
Iran
Iraq
Japan
Jordan
Korea
Kuwait
Lebanon
Malaysia
Nepal
New Zealand
Oman
Palestine
Philippines
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Thailand
United Arab Emirates
NEWS
FIBA and IWBF strengthen cooperation
FIBA and IWBF (International Wheelchair Basketball Federation) have strengthened their partnership with the renewal of the Memorandum of Understanding until the end of 2023. The two world governing bodies for the sports of basketball and wheelchair basketball have...
Brazil’s Viana: Sitting in a basketball chair returned my dream of being a professional athlete
Brazil’s Amauri Viana found wheelchair basketball as part of his rehabilitation following a car accident left him with a spinal cord injury at the age of 19. The 30-year-old Brazilian international, who plays for the A.D.D. (Sports Association for the Disabled) Magic...
Erskine: Wheelchair basketball was kind of my form of outpatient physical therapy
Today wheelchair basketball is a sport that is played by people with varying physical disabilities, however in its early days it was created to aid rehabilitation of those with spinal cord injuries. To this day a high percentage of wheelchair basketball players...
