2024 IWBF Women's Repechage
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| 2024 IWBF Women’s Repechage | |
|---|---|
| Venue | Asue Arena Osaka |
| Location | Osaka, Japan |
| Start date | 17 April 2024 |
| End date | 20 April 2024 |
| Competitors | 8 teams from 8 nations |
The 2024 IWBF Women’s Repechage was held at the Asue Arena Osaka in Osaka, Japan, between 17 and 20 April 2024. Germany, Japan, Spain and Canada qualified for a place at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France.
Wheelchair basketball at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France, to be hosted between 29 August to 8 September 2024, will feature men's and women's tournaments. There will be reduced number of teams participating: eight teams in each tournament, four less men's teams and two less women's teams than in the previous Games.[1] The 2022 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships were held in Dubai in United Arab Emirates, from 8 to 20 June 2023. As a result, two places were awarded to the Europe, one to the Americas and one to Asia-Oceania. The winners of these championships qualified, while eight runners up qualified for the repechage.[2][3]
At the 2023 European Para Championships in Rotterdam from 8 to 20 August 2023, Great Britain and the Netherlands earned places in Paris, and Germany, Spain earned places in the repechage, as did France as the host nation of the Paralympics.[4] The 2023 Parapan American Games in Santiago from 17 to 26 November 2023 saw the United States qualify and Canada earn a place at the repechage.[5] At the 2024 IWBF Asia-Oceania Championships in Bangkok from 12 to 20 January 2024, China as the winning team earned a place at the Paris 2024 Paralympics Games, and Australia and Thailand earned a place in the 2024 IWBF Women's Repechage in Osaka, Japan, as did Japan as its host nation.[6] Algeria, as the African zone champion, completed the roster of eight teams in the repechage.[7]
