Wheelchair rugby at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Wheelchair rugby
at the XIV Paralympic Games
Wheelchair rugby; at the XIV Paralympic Games
Venue	Basketball Arena
Dates	5 – 9 September
Competitors	96 (8 teams)
Medalists
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Wheelchair rugby at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was held in the Basketball Arena, London from 5 September to 9 September. There was one event^[1] where 8 teams competed.^[2] Though a mixed gender event the vast majority of competitors at the games were male.^[3]

Qualification

A NPC may enter one team. The host country directly qualified, as it had a rank on the IWRF Wheelchair Rugby World Ranking List on 31 January 2012. Two qualification spots went to the top two NPCs on the ranking list that were not otherwise qualified.^[2]

Qualified	Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Berths
Great Britain	Host country			1
Vereinigte Staaten	2010 IWRF Wheelchair Rugby World Championships	21–26 September 2010	Vancouver^[4]	1
Kanada	2011 IWRF Wheelchair Rugby Zonal Championships – Americas	18–25 September 2011	Bogotá^[5]	1
Schweden Belgien	2011 IWRF Wheelchair Rugby Zonal Championships – European	1–9 October 2011	Nottwil^[5]	2
Australien	2011 IWRF Wheelchair Rugby Zonal Championships – Asia, Oceania	2–10 November 2011	Seoul^[5]	1
Japan Frankreich	IWRF Wheelchair Rugby World Ranking	31 January 2012		2

Tournament

The temporary Basketball Arena in Olympic Park, had a capacity of 10,000 spectators

The tournament took place from 5 to 9 September at the Basketball Arena in Olympic Park.^[6] It consisted of an initial round-robin group stage of two groups of four teams, followed by a fifth to eighth place playoff round for the bottom two from each group. The top two teams from each group went through to the semifinals and gold and bronze-medal matches.^[7]

September	5 / 6 / 7	8	9
Phase	Preliminary Round	Classification 5-8 Placement 5-6 & 7-8 Semifinals 1	Gold-medal match Bronze-medal match

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Vereinigte Staaten (USA)	3	3	0	190	136	+54	6	Semifinals
Japan (JPN)	3	2	1	164	159	+5	4	Semifinals
Great Britain (GBR)	3	1	2	140	157	−17	2	Eliminated
Frankreich (FRA)	3	0	3	150	192	−42	0	Eliminated

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

5 September 2012

14:00

Vereinigte Staaten	56 – 44	Great Britain
Aoki 14 Groulx 9 Team 7 McBride 6 Sumner 5 A. Cohn 5 Scaturro 3 Helton 2 Delagrave 2 Regier 1 C. Cohn 1 Springer 1	Bericht	Phipps 16 Anthony 11 Brown 5 Morrison 5 Barrow 3 Kerr 2 Sehmi 1 Team 1

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Australien (AUS)	3	3	0	182	142	+40	6	Semifinals
Kanada (CAN)	3	2	1	163	166	−3	4	Semifinals
Schweden (SWE)	3	1	2	151	155	−4	2	Eliminated
Belgien (BEL)	3	0	3	135	168	−33	0	Eliminated

Classification round		Fifth place

8 September 2012 - 09:30

Great Britain	54
		8 September 2012 - 21:15
Belgien	49
		Great Britain	59
8 September 2012 - 11:45
		Schweden	47
Schweden	58

Frankreich	48
		Seventh place

		8 September 2012 - 19:00

		Belgien	54

		Frankreich	50

Semifinals		Gold-medal match

8 September 2012 - 16:15

Vereinigte Staaten	49
		9 September 2012 - 14:15
Kanada	50
		Kanada	51
8 September 2012 - 14:00
		Australien	66
Australien	59

Japan	45
		Bronze-medal match

		9 September 2012 - 12:00

		Vereinigte Staaten	53

		Japan	43

Wheelchair rugby at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Qualification

Tournament

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Playoffs

5-8th-place semifinals

Seventh-place match

Fifth-place match

Medal round

Semifinals

Bronze-medal match

Gold-medal match

Ranking

Medalists

See also

References

External links