Great Britain men's national wheelchair basketball team
{{Short description|British sports team}}
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| paraly_medals=16px Silver: 1960, 1964, 1996, 2024
16px Bronze: 1960, 1968, 2004, 2008, 2016
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| wc_medals=16px Gold: 1973, 2018
16px Silver: 1994, 2002, 2022
16px Bronze: 1975
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The Great Britain men's national wheelchair basketball team is the men's wheelchair basketball side that represents Great Britain in international competitions.
Great Britain has competed at every men's wheelchair basketball tournament at the Paralympic Games since the first tournament in 1960.
Competitions
=[[Wheelchair basketball at the Summer Paralympics|Summer Paralympics]]=
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Year
!width="100"|Position !width="25"|W !width="25"|L | |||
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rowspan=2| {{flagicon|Italy}} 1960 | A - {{silver2}} | ? | ? |
B - {{bronze3}} | ? | ? | |
rowspan=2| {{flagicon|Japan}} 1964 | A - {{silver2}} | ? | ? |
B - ? | ? | ? | |
{{flagicon|Israel}} 1968 | {{bronze3}} | ? | ? |
{{flagicon|Germany}} 1972 | 4th | ? | ? |
{{flagicon|Canada}} 1976 | ? | ? | ? |
{{flagicon|Netherlands}} 1980 | 12th | ? | ? |
{{flagicon|United States}} 1984 | ? | ? | ? |
{{flagicon|South Korea}} 1988 | 11th | ? | ? |
{{flagicon|Spain}} 1992 | 6th | ? | ? |
{{flagicon|United States}} 1996 | {{silver2}} | 5 | 3 |
{{flagicon|Australia}} 2000 | 4th | 4 | 4 |
{{flagicon|Greece}} 2004 | {{bronze3}} | 4 | 4 |
{{flagicon|China}} 2008 | {{bronze3}} | 6 | 2 |
style="border: 3px solid red"|{{flagicon|Great Britain}} 2012 | 4th | 4 | 4 |
{{flagicon|Brazil}} 2016 | {{bronze3}} | 6 | 2 |
Total | ?/16 | ? | ? |
=[[European Wheelchair Basketball Championship|European Championship]]=
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Year
!width="100"|Position !width="25"|W !width="25"|L | |||
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{{flagicon|Belgium}} 1970 | {{bronze3}} | ? | ? |
bgcolor=gold
|{{flagicon|France}} 1971 | {{gold1}} | ? | ? |
bgcolor=gold
|{{flagicon|France}} 1974 | {{gold1}} | ? | ? |
{{flagicon|Spain}} 1991 | {{bronze3}} | ? | ? |
{{flagicon|Germany}} 1993 | {{silver2}} | ? | ? |
bgcolor=gold
|{{flagicon|France}} 1995 | {{gold1}} | ? | ? |
{{flagicon|Spain}} 1997 | {{silver2}} | ? | ? |
{{flagicon|Netherlands}} 1999 | 4th | ? | ? |
{{flagicon|Netherlands}} 2001–02 | 4th | ? | ? |
{{flagicon|Italy}} 2003 | {{bronze3}} | ? | ? |
{{flagicon|France}} 2005 | {{silver2}} | ? | ? |
{{flagicon|Germany}} 2007 | {{silver2}} | ? | ? |
{{flagicon|Turkey}} 2009 | {{bronze3}} | ? | ? |
bgcolor=gold
|{{flagicon|Israel}} 2011 | {{gold1}} | ? | ? |
bgcolor=gold
|{{flagicon|Germany}} 2013 | {{gold1}} | 8 | 0 |
bgcolor=gold
|style="border: 3px solid red"|{{flagicon|Great Britain}} 2015 | {{gold1}} | 6 | 2 |
{{flagicon|Spain}} 2017 | {{silver2}} | 6 | 2 |
bgcolor=gold
|{{flagicon|Netherlands}} 2019 | {{gold1}} | 8 | 0 |
{{flagicon|Spain}} 2021 | {{silver2}} | 7 | 1 |
{{flagicon|Netherlands}} 2023 | ? | ? | ? |
Total | 19/23 | 37 | 5 |
Past rosters
- 2010 World Championship: finished 6th among 10 teams
- 2008 Paralympic Games: finished 3rd among 12 teams
Ade Orogbemi, Andrew Blake, Kevin Hayes, Matthew Byrne, Simon Brown, Peter Finbow, Joseph Bestwick, Jonathan Hall, Abdillah Jama, Terence Bywater, Jon Pollock, Simon Munn
- 2004 Paralympic Games: finished 3rd among 12 teams
Matt Byrne, Andrew Blake, Peter Finbow, Colin Price, Stuart Jellows, Ade Adepitan, Jonathan Pollock, Simon Munn, Terry Bywater, Kevin Hayes, Fred Howley, Sinclair Thomas
See also
References
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- [http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/index.html?sport=3&ct=PG&ordered=1#general IPC Historical Results Database - General Search], International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
- The information from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) website is based on sources which does not present all information from earlier paralympic games (1960-1984), such as relay and team members.[http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/reports.html?type=multi&sport=28&gender=all] (Per 5 March 2011)
- [http://www.iwbf.org/index.php/world-events/paralympics Paralympics - Results], International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF)
External links
- [http://www.gbwba.org.uk/gbwba/ GB Men] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120824022158/http://www.gbwba.org.uk/gbwba/ |date=2012-08-24 }}, at the Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball Association (GBWBA)
{{National sports teams of the United Kingdom}}
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