Reporting from Bogota Columbia First American Club Championships

Teams from Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia are competing this week in Bogota, Columbia

Follow this link to a large PDF file containing various press clippings from the 2011 African Championships

The Final Games of the Parapan Americas and the final games of the Zone Championships concluded today. Congratulations to all teams for their efforts at this exciting event. USA women win Gold. The USA, Canada and Brazil Women qualify for London 2012 . . .

Parapan American Games in Guadalajara Mexico have started with the first day off to a great start before sell out crowds of enthusiastic fans.

For results and live games head to the official website  and link here for The Results  - For a summary of day one results . . . 

The final day of preliminary round play at the Asia/Oceania World Championships has been completed. It was an interesting final day to the games, some close games and some victories that made the standings very close for many teams.  The Japanese Men, Chines Women and Australian Men's and Women's Teams have taken the two spots for Asia/Oceania in the London 2012 paralympics.

Results and final summary of preliminary round games  . . . 

The second half of our tournament has begun and we are getting closer to identifying our top teams. 

We want to give a round of applause to the teams who are new to the tournament or returning after being away for some years.  We know you have been struggling, but still playing on. There is nothing as important as taking a hard lesson and learning from it, putting your head up and still moving forward. . .  best of luck in your final games

Day 5 results and summary

We are half way through the third of our 4 Zone World Championship. We have had some competitive games and some games that newer teams will have to use as a learning experience. Which two teams do you think will be qualifying for London 2012?

The Asia Oceania Zone of IWBF held their Congress Sunday November 6 and among other things elected a new executive. With current President Yuichi Watanabe retiring it meant a new president would be elected.

For a summary wrap-up created by IWBF Africa - click on the pdf link below

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Asia/Oceania – November 4th-11th, Goyang in South Korea

Two of the 6 men's Teams and 2 of the 4 women's teams Asia/Oceania will qualify for the London 2012 paralympics

Visit the Web Site at http://kwbf.or.kr/2011goyang/

The Americas Championship tournament Schedule

In addition to the African championship tournament in Rabat Morocco one other important thing that happened in Rabat was the Congress of IWBF Africa.

The new Executive Council (2011-2015) was elected. Returning as President was Hamid El Aouni, (Morocco). 

South Africa wins the African Championships and will represent Africa in London 2012

Asia/Oceania – November 4th-11th, Goyang in South Korea

Visit the Web Site at http://kwbf.or.kr/2011goyang/

Americas – November 13th-20th, in Gudalajara in Mexico

visit the Web site at http://parapan.guadalajara2011.org.mx/en/inicio

2011 European Congress

The 2011 European Congress is being held September 16th, 2011, in Nazereth, Israel.

The U25 Women's World Championship Final Games are now set. Thursday, July 21st at 19:00 EST the USA and Australia will play for the championship medal.

The U25 Women's quarterfinal results are now in. If you attended the games or watched the live broadcasts you heard the sounds of excited crowds cheering on great competitors.

During the final quarter-final game a contingent of team Mexico fans supported their players with enthusiasm to the end.

South American Club Championships Bogota, Colombia

Day Three in Bogota Colombia

The results from Peru and the II Andina Cup. 

Uruguay  defeats Peru 47 - 37 to win the Andina Cup. 

Immediate Release From Lima, Peru.

Peru and Uruguay earn spots in South American Championships in Venezuela in November 2012

Peru finsihed first at the end of the preliminary round at the II Andina Cup based on a 3 - 0 record. Uruguay (2 - 1) finished second with Chile (1 - 2) third and Bolivia (0 - 3) fourth).

The Paralympics is only a few weeks a way but we are already preparing for the Zone Championships next Fall.

Read about our President's site visit to San Juan, Puerto, Rico as they prepare to bring you the Americas and Caribbean Championships in October. We have pictures too! Follow this link to the blog  and the first post "Site Visit for San Juan, Puerto Rico"

IWBF Americas is holding a pre-qualification tournament in Managua, Nicaragua this week. This tournament will qualify one country to the Central America and Caribbean  Championship which will be held in Puerto Rico in October has five countries attending Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Panama and Nicaragua.

At the end of the third day of competition Nicaragua has 8 points based on 4 games played, Costa Rica has 7 points on 4 games, Panama has 6 points on 4 games, Dominican Republic has 5 points on 4 games, Honduras has 4 points based on 4 games. 

The qualifying process for next year’s Paralympic Wheelchair Basketball Tournaments for Men and Women recently came to a close.

Over the past three months, some very exciting wheelchair basketball has been played and, at times, produced some unexpected results which serve as further proof of the game’s growth on a global scale.

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