Dates Confirmed for 2024 IWBF Repechage Tournaments – IWBF

The much-anticipated dates for the inaugural 2024 IWBF Repechage Tournaments for each women and men have been formally introduced. Organized by the Worldwide Wheelchair Basketball Federation, these Championships are the ultimate likelihood for qualification to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games.

Each occasions are set to happen in April 2024. The lads’s competitors, which will probably be hosted by the Fédération Française Handisport, is scheduled to happen in Antibes, France between 12 April – 15 April.

The lads’s competitors will probably be straight adopted by the ladies’s competitors, which is scheduled to happen between the 17 April – 20 April in Osaka, Japan hosted by the Japanese Wheelchair Basketball Federation.

IWBF Competitors Fee Chair, Charlie Bethel, mentioned:

 “After meticulous planning and coordination with each Native Organising Committees and with one of the best efforts to minimise disruption to the nationwide league seasons, we’re happy to verify the dates for the Repechage tournaments subsequent 12 months. These occasions present a further qualification alternative for the 2024 Paris Paralympic Video games in Paris, offering a repechage-style qualification course of that compliments the Zonal Qualification Championships. These competitions promise to be of the best normal as groups battle for a last route to Paris 2024.

“We’re grateful to the Fédération Française Handisport and the Japanese Wheelchair Basketball Federation for his or her unwavering dedication in offering the last word occasion expertise for a few of the greatest groups on this planet.”

Each tournaments will observe the identical format, consisting of two teams that may set up rankings for crossover matches. Subsequently, the climactic knockout stage will unveil the last word 4 groups incomes their coveted berths for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games.

The brand new qualification system was launched following the discount in crew locations on the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games. The purpose is to make sure the fairest method and that one of the best groups on this planet are represented on the Video games. The Repechage Tournaments give a last alternative for groups to qualify for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games that don’t qualify via the Zonal Championships.

2024 IWBF Repechage for Males
Antibes, France
12 April  – 15 April
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2024 IWBF Repechage for Girls
Osaka, Japan
17 April  – 20 April
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Additional info on the distribution of locations for the repechage tournaments will be discovered right here.