Sport: | wheelchair rugby |
Size: | 150 |
Mixedevents: | 1 |
Wheelchair rugby was first contested at the Summer Paralympics as a demonstration sport in 1996. It became an official medal-awarding sport in 2000 and has been competed at every Summer Paralympics since then. Only one event, mixed team, is held.
Year | Host | width=1% rowspan=9 bgcolor=ffffff | Gold medal game | width=1% rowspan=9 bgcolor=ffffff | Bronze medal game | ||||||
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width=15% | Gold medalist | width=10% | Score | width=15% | Silver medalist | width=15% | Bronze medalist | width=10% | Score | width=15% | Fourth place |
1996 details | Atlanta | 37 - 30 | 46 - 34 | ||||||||
2000 details | Sydney | 32 - 31 | 44 - 32 | ||||||||
2004 details | Athens | 31 - 29 | 43 - 39 | ||||||||
2008 details | Beijing | 53 - 44 | 47 - 41 | ||||||||
2012 details | London | 66 - 51 | 53 - 43 | ||||||||
2016 details | Rio de Janeiro | 59 - 58 | 52 - 50 | ||||||||
2020 details | Tokyo | 54 - 49 | 60 - 52 |
Updated after the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Four nations - United States, Canada, Australia and Great Britain have appeared in every wheelchair rugby Paralympic tournament since its introduction. The 1996 tournament was considered a demonstration event, but unlike the Olympics, medals were awarded and counted in the main medals table.
The final placement for each team in each tournament is shown in the following tables.
Nation | ||||||||
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6th | 5th | 4th | ||||||
– | – | 6th | – | 7th | – | – | ||
– | – | – | – | – | 8th | – | ||
4th | 4th | 5th | ||||||
– | – | – | 8th | – | – | – | ||
– | – | – | – | – | – | 7th | ||
– | – | – | – | 8th | 7th | 6th | ||
– | 7th | 7th | 6th | – | – | – | ||
4th | 6th | 4th | 4th | 5th | 5th | |||
– | – | 8th | 7th | 4th | ||||
5th | – | – | 8th | |||||
5th | 5th | – | – | 6th | 6th | – | ||
– | 8th | – | – | – | – | – | ||