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
United States	2010 IWRF Wheelchair Rugby World Championships	21–26 September 2010	Vancouver^[4]	1
Canada	2011 IWRF Wheelchair Rugby Zonal Championships – Americas	18–25 September 2011	Bogotá^[5]	1
Sweden Belgium	2011 IWRF Wheelchair Rugby Zonal Championships – European	1–9 October 2011	Nottwil^[5]	2
Australia	2011 IWRF Wheelchair Rugby Zonal Championships – Asia, Oceania	2–10 November 2011	Seoul^[5]	1
Japan France	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
United States (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
France (FRA)	3	0	3	150	192	−42	0	Eliminated

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

5 September 2012

14:00

United States	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	Report	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
Australia (AUS)	3	3	0	182	142	+40	6	Semifinals
Canada (CAN)	3	2	1	163	166	−3	4	Semifinals
Sweden (SWE)	3	1	2	151	155	−4	2	Eliminated
Belgium (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
Belgium	49
		Great Britain	59
8 September 2012 - 11:45
		Sweden	47
Sweden	58

France	48
		Seventh place

		8 September 2012 - 19:00

		Belgium	54

		France	50

Semifinals		Gold-medal match

8 September 2012 - 16:15

United States	49
		9 September 2012 - 14:15
Canada	50
		Canada	51
8 September 2012 - 14:00
		Australia	66
Australia	59

Japan	45
		Bronze-medal match

		9 September 2012 - 12:00

		United States	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