Wheelchair rugby

Wheelchair rugby

Wheelchair rugby, , is a team sport for athletes with a disability. It is currently practiced in over twenty countries around the world and is a Paralympic sport....

 is a sport with national representation at the Paralympic games. It is not included at the Special Olympics

Special Olympics

Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to more than 3.1 million athletes in 175 countries....

 or the Deaflympics

Deaflympics

The Deaflympics are an International Olympic Committee -sanctioned event at which deaf athletes compete at an elite level...

. The sport is one of the few contact sports available for wheelchair sport athletes. It has drawn large crowds at events such as the Paralympics. The sport uses a volleyball for the ball and combines elements of basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, soccer and ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

. The game is played on a basketball sized court.

See also

• Australia at the Paralympics
  Australia at the Paralympics
  Australia has sent delegations to the Summer Paralympics since the first games in 1960, and to the Winter Paralympics since 1980, ....