Welcome to IWBF’s Players’ Hub!
As the governing body for international wheelchair basketball, IWBF aims to provide information for players that directly benefit your development on and off-the-court.
The players’ hub will provide and signpost to resources and information that relates to players.
RESOURCES & USEFUL INFORMATION
The International Paralympic Committee offers resources for retiring Paralympians and those Paralympians who are still active, these include:
FIBA also has a comprehensive Players’ Hub which includes a lot of information that can be transferred and beneficial to wheelchair basketball players!
PLAYER 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...
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,...
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....
