Wheelchair basketball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Women's tournament explained

Event:	Wheelchair basketball
Games:	2020 Summer
Venue:	Ariake Arena Musashino Forest Sport Plaza
Dates:	25 August – 4 September 2021
Competitors:	120
Nations:	10
Prev:	2016
Next:	2024

The 2020 Summer Paralympics women's tournament in Tokyo began on 25 August and ended on the 4 September 2021. The matches were played at the Musashino Forest Sport Plaza and the Ariake Arena. This was the fourteenth edition of the tournament since the tournament debut at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv.

Ten teams were separated into two groups of five with the top four qualifying through to the knockout stage of the competition. The knockout stage started from the quarter-finals and ended with the gold medal match, aside from the classification matches.

Competition schedule

G	Group stage	¼	Quarter-finals	½	Semi-finals	B	Bronze medal match	GM	Gold medal match

	Wed 25 Aug	Thu 26 Aug	Fri 27 Aug	Sat 28 Aug	Sun 29 Aug	Mon 30 Aug	Tue 31 Aug	Wed 1 Sep	Thu 2 Sep	Fri 3 Sep	Sat 4 Sep
Women	G	G	G	G	G		1/4		1/2		B	GM

Qualification

Ten teams qualified through the qualifying stage with the host nation in Japan. The other nine spots were spread out across four different events. Four spots was taken up by European teams, two by the Americas and Asia/Pacific and one in Africa.^[1]

Means of qualification	Date	Berths	Qualified
Host country		1
2019 Europe Zonal Championships^[2]	29 June – 7 July 2019	4
	23 August – 1 September 2019	2	^[3] ^[4]
2019 Asia/Oceania Zonal Championships^[5]	29 November – 7 December 2019	2
2020 African Zonal Championships	1–7 March 2020	1
Total		10

Squads

See main article: article and Wheelchair basketball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Women's team rosters.

Preliminary round

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

9th–10th classification playoff

Quarter-finals

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7th–8th classification playoff

5th–6th classification playoff

Semi-finals

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Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Rankings

Rank	Team



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10

Notes and References

Web site: 29 November 2017. Tokyo 2020 Summer Paralympic Games. 29 August 2021. International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. iwbf.org. en-US.
Web site: Rotterdam 2019: Four teams earn qualification for Tokyo . 5 July 2019 . International Paralympic Committee.
Web site: Canadian Parapan Am Team on Day 7: Canada Advances to Gold Medal Game in Women's Wheelchair Basketball . 29 August 2019 . Canadian Paralympic Committee.
Web site: US Women's Wheelchair Basketball Team Wins Semifinal in Lima, Earning Spot at 2020 Paralympics . 29 August 2019 . United States Paralympic Committee.
Web site: China women make it a clean sweep at 2019 Asia Oceania Championships . 9 December 2019. International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. iwbf.org .