| Sport | Wheelchair basketball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1973 M / 1990 W |
| Country | IWBF members |
| Continent | IWBF (International) |
TheIWBF World Wheelchair Basketball Championship (World Championships from 1973 to 2002 (2006) known as Gold Cup) is an internationalwheelchair basketball competition contested by the men's and the women's national teams of the members of theInternational Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF), the sport's global governing body.
The first unofficial Wheelchair Basketball World Championships for men was held in 1973,[1] withBruges,Belgium being the first host city. The unofficial world championship for men was won byGreat Britain, with a team that includedPhilip Craven,[2] who would later become the President of theInternational Paralympic Committee (IPC). Bruges, Belgium also hosted the first official World Championships, known as theGold Cup tournament, in 1975.
The men's world championships has been won 7 times by theUnited States, twice each byAustralia andGreat Britain (one of which being the unofficial Championship in 1973), and once each byIsrael,France andCanada. Wheelchair basketball world championships for women have been held since 1990. In the first 6 women's world championships,Canada has won four world titles, and theUnited States two world titles.
| Number | Year | Host | Men | Women |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1973* | Bruges (Belgium) |  Great Britain | – |
| 2 | 1975 | Bruges (Belgium) |  Israel | – |
| 3 | 1979 | Tampa (United States) |  United States | – |
| 4 | 1983 | Halifax (Canada) | United States | – |
| 5 | 1986 | Melbourne (Australia) | United States | – |
| 6 | 1990 | Bruges (Belgium) |  France | – |
| Saint-Étienne (France) | – | United States | ||
| 7 | 1994[3] | Edmonton (Canada) | United States | – |
| Stoke Mandeville (Great Britain) | – |  Canada | ||
| 8 | 1998[3] | Sydney (Australia) | United States | Canada |
| 9 | 2002[3] | Kitakyushu (Japan) | United States | Canada |
| 10 | 2006[3] | Amsterdam (Netherlands) | Canada | Canada |
| 11 | 2010[3] | Birmingham (United Kingdom) |  Australia | United States |
| 12 | 2014[4][5] | Incheon (South Korea) | Australia | – |
| Toronto (Canada) | – | Canada | ||
| 13 | 2018 | Hamburg (Germany) | Great Britain |  Netherlands |
| 14 | 2022 | Dubai (United Arab Emirates) | United States | Netherlands |
| 15 | 2026 | Ottawa (Canada) |
* Unofficial Championship
* Unofficial Championship
| Year | Dates | Host (final location) | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Score | Silver | Bronze | Score | Fourth place | |||||
| 1990[6] Details | 5-11 July | France (Saint-Étienne) | United States | 58–55 |  Germany | Canada | – | Netherlands | ||
| 1994[3] Details | 6-13 August | Great Britain (Stoke Mandeville) | Canada | 45–34 | United States | Australia | 38–36 | Netherlands | ||
| 1998[3] Details | 26-30 Oct | Australia (Sydney) | Canada | 54–38 | United States | Australia | 40–35 |  Japan | ||
| 2002[3] Details | 26-31 August | Japan (Kitakyushu) | Canada | 51–46 | United States | Australia | 43–39 | Japan | ||
| 2006[3] Details | 8-14 July | Netherlands (Amsterdam) | Canada | 58–50 | United States | Germany | 52–48 | Australia | ||
| 2010[3] Details | 7-16 July | Great Britain (Birmingham) | United States | 55–53 | Germany | Canada | 59–49 | Australia | ||
| 2014[7] Details | 20-28 July | Canada (Toronto) | Canada | 54–50 | Germany | Netherlands | 74–58 | United States | ||
| 2018 Details | 16-26 August | Germany (Hamburg) | Netherlands | 56–40 | Great Britain | Germany | 44–43 |  China | ||
| 2022 Details | 9–20 June 2023 |  United Arab Emirates (Dubai) | Netherlands | 57–34 | China | United States | 57–42 | Germany | ||
| 2026 Details | 9–19 September | Canada (Ottawa) | ||||||||
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 7 | 5 | 1 | 13 |
| 2 | Great Britain | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | Australia | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | France | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | Canada | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 6 | Israel | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 |  Iran | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Turkey | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (10 entries) | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 | |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | United States | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Germany | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | China | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 | Australia | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Totals (7 entries) | 9 | 9 | 9 | 27 | |
| Year | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | USA | GER | CAN | NED | FRA | AUS | GBR |  ESP | ||||||
| 1994 | CAN | USA | AUS | NED | GER | GBR | JPN | FRA | ISR | ESP | ||||
| 1998 | CAN | USA | AUS | JPN | GER | NED | GBR |  MEX | ||||||
| 2002 | CAN | USA | AUS | JPN | MEX | NED | GER | GBR | ||||||
| 2006 | CAN | USA | GER | AUS | NED | JPN | MEX | FRA | ||||||
| 2010 | USA | GER | CAN | AUS | NED | GBR | JPN | CHN | MEX |  BRA | ||||
| 2014 | CAN | GER | NED | USA | GBR | AUS | CHN | FRA | JPN | MEX | BRA |  PER | ||
| 2018 | NED | GBR | GER | CHN | CAN | USA | ESP | FRA | AUS | BRA |  ARG |  ALG | ||
| 2022 | NED | CHN | USA | GER | CAN | AUS | JPN | ESP | GBR | BRA |  THA | ALG | ||
