Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team

 Australia
IWBF zoneAsia Oceania
National federationBasketball Australia
CoachBrad Ness
Nickname(s)Rollers
Paralympic Games
Appearances15
Medals Gold: 1996, 2008
Silver: 2004, 2012
World Championships
Appearances13
Medals Gold: 2010, 2014
Bronze: 2006, 2018

The Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team is the men's wheelchair basketball side that represents Australia in international competitions. The team is known as the Rollers. Australia took the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games and 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games.

Australia has competed at every men's wheelchair basketball tournament at the Paralympic Games except 1964.[1][2][3] Kevin Coombs was Australia's first captain of the men's wheelchair basketball team.

The Rollers qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics by winning the 2015 Asia Oceania Qualifying Tournament and finished sixth.[4]

  1. ^ Kevin Coombs Archived 31 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Basketball Australia
  2. ^ Kevin Coombs Archived 6 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
  3. ^ Easy Win In Basketball At Paralympics., The Age, 21 September 1960, Google News Archive
  4. ^ "Heartbreak and Elation for Gliders and Rollers at AOZ qualifying tournament". Basketball Australia. Retrieved 20 October 2015.

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