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IWBF conducts draw for wheelchair basketball tournaments at Tokyo 2020 Wednesday, 12 May 2021
The top four finishers at the 2018 World Championship have been drawn together in the men s wheelchair basketball tournament at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
Defending Paralympic champions the United States, reigning world champions Britain, world bronze medallists Australia and Iran have been placed in Group B.
They are set to be joined by Germany and Algeria after the draw was conducted by the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation in Stoke Mandeville, England today.
Group A of the men s event features Rio 2016 silver medallists Spain, Paralympic bronze medallists Turkey, Canada, South Korea, Colombia and hosts Japan.
Tokyo 2020 wheelchair basketball draw to be held in England on May 12 Friday, 30 April 2021
The draw for the wheelchair basketball tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games on May 12 has been moved from the Japanese capital to Stoke Mandeville in England due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 12 teams in the men s event and the 10 in the women s competition will learn their opponents following the draw, to be held behind closed doors.
It will be streamed live by the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF), with British Olympian and broadcaster Jeannette Kwakye set to present the coverage.
Former International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Sir Philip Craven and Hajime Hayashi, the Japanese Ambassador to the United Kingdom, will be the guests for the draw.