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Wheelchair Basketball is a fun and fast-paced Paralympic Sport for people with physical disabilities, that requires: strategy, skill, fitness & teamwork.

Who Can Play Wheelchair Basketball?

Social to National Level

Reverse inclusion is important to the Para-sport, Wheelchair Basketball. From a social to national level, everyone can participate in the sport. We actively encourage friends and family to roll with us!

Impairment Type

To be eligible to be formally classified to play wheelchair basketball, a person must in their lower limbs have an objective and measurable permanent physical disability, which prevents them from running, jumping and pivoting as an able-bodied player.

Classification

Wheelchair basketball classification is based on the players’ functional capacity to complete the skills necessary to play – pushing, pivoting, shooting, rebounding, dribbling, passing and catching.

It is not an assessment of a player’s level of skill, merely their functional capacity to complete the task. Players are assigned points as their classification – 1, 2, 3, and 4 are the recognised classes, with 0.5 classes between for the exceptional cases which do not fit exactly into one class and the 4.5 category for the player with least or minimal disability. People who are not classifiable are also 4.5 points (not eligible to represent their state/territory or nation).

The total number of points allowed on court at any time, depends upon the level of competition. At a National & International level the cap is 14.0. That is, the total points of all five players actually playing. If a coach allows the team to have over 14.0 points, they will incur a coach technical foul.

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