France and Japan introduced as hosts of ultimate Paris 2024 Qualification Occasions – IWBF

France and Japan have been awarded the rights to host the ultimate Paris 2024 Paralympic Games wheelchair basketball qualification occasions for women and men, respectively.

It was introduced on the postponed 2022 IWBF World Congress, which happened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates final week, that Fédération Française Handisport has received the rights to host the Paris 2024 Repechage Match for males in Antibes, France, and the Japanese Wheelchair Basketball Federation the rights for the Paris 2024 Repechage Match for ladies in Osaka, Japan.

Because of the discount in group locations on the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games, a brand new qualification system was launched with the goal to make sure the fairest method and that one of the best groups on the earth are represented on the Video games. The Repechage tournaments give a closing alternative for groups to qualify for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games that don’t qualify by way of the Zonal Championships.

4 (4) males’s groups and 4 (4) ladies’s groups will qualify for the Paralympic Video games by way of the Zonal Championships*, with the remaining 4 (4) locations for women and men on the Paralympic Video games coming from the repechage tournaments.

The repechage tournaments, that are deliberate to happen in April 2024, will encompass eight (8) males’s groups and eight (8) ladies’s groups.

The distribution of locations for the repechage tournaments have been decided by a number of elements together with the ultimate standings (under the highest 4 positioned groups) on the 2022 World Championships. The Zonal Championships will determine the nations who will take part within the repechage tournaments.

Girls’s Competitors

Males’s Competitors

* 2 European, 1 Asia Oceania, and 1 Americas will qualify for Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games by way of the Zonal Championships, these spots have been earnt by the highest 4 ending groups on the 2022 World Championships.