Largest Ever Subject for IWBF Girls’s U25 World Championship – IWBF

The 2023 IWBF Girls’s U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship is ready to be the most important but.

The Championship, which is the top competitors for junior ladies’s wheelchair basketball, will happen within the metropolis of Bangkok, Thailand between the 3 October – 9 October 2023 that includes 10 ladies’s groups from the world over.

Ten groups is a 20% improve on the variety of groups who’ve beforehand competed within the Championship and contains illustration from all zones.

The groups who’ve been awarded a spot to compete primarily based on rankings are:

• Africa: South Africa
• Americas: USA, Canada
• Asia Oceania: Australia, China, Japan, Thailand*
• Europe: Germany, Spain, Nice Britain

IWBF President, Ulf Mehrens, mentioned:

“The 2023 Girls’s U25 World Championship would be the fourth of its form and for it to be the most important could be very encouraging particularly provided that COVID pandemic impacted numerous the wheelchair basketball programmes the world over.

“Our focus is to supply a transparent pathway to help the event of girls enjoying our sport which incorporates an elite junior platform to supply aggressive alternatives. To see the expansion of the ladies’s recreation throughout our Zones is basically inspiring.”

The Sport Affiliation for Wheelchair Basketball Thai (SAWBT) will host the occasion in Bangkok, Thailand. SAWBT have a profitable monitor file of internet hosting worldwide competitions which embrace the final U25 World Championship in Suphanburi, the 2021 U23 World Championship in Phuket final 12 months, and a number of other Asia Oceania Championships.

Going down each 4 years, this would be the fourth version of the U25 World Championship with the USA the reigning champions from 2019.