3x3 basketball at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Men's wheelchair tournament

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Men's 3x3 wheelchair
basketball tournament
at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
VenueSmithfield
Dates29 July – 2 August 2022
Competitors23 from 6 nations
Medalists
gold medal    Australia
silver medal    Canada
bronze medal    England

The men's 3x3 wheelchair basketball tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games will be held in a temporary Games-time venue at the brownfield site in Smithfield between 29 July and 2 August 2022.[1]

The discipline of wheelchair basketball made its sport debut at the Commonwealth Games.[2]

Qualification

England qualified as host nation, two nations qualified by winning their respective IWBF zonal qualifiers, and the rest received Bipartite Invitations. Five of the six Commonwealth Games regions are represented.

Means of qualification Date Location Quotas Qualified
Host Nation 1  England
IWBF Africa Qualifier 9 October 2021 South Africa Johannesburg 1  South Africa
IWBF Europe Qualifier 14 April 2022 Scotland Largs 1  Northern Ireland
Bipartite Invitation[a] 22 April 2022 3  Australia
 Canada
 Malaysia
TOTAL 6
Qualifier scheduling issue
  1. ^ The men's IWBF Americas and Asia/Oceania Qualifiers were cancelled, so two additional invitations (one per Zone) were sent instead.[3][4]

Rosters

CGA Players
 Australia Luke Pople Lachlin Dalton Kurt Thompson Jake Kavanagh
 Canada Vincent Dallaire Colin Higgins Robert Hedges
 England Tyler Baines Lee Manning Abderrahim Taghrest Charlie McIntyre
 Malaysia Ahmad Nazri Hamzah Muhammad Roozaimi Johari Muhamad Atib Zakaria Freday Tan Yei Bing
 Northern Ireland James MacSorley Conn Nagle Nathan McCabe Matthew Rollston
 South Africa Allen Mtatase Ayabonga Jim Cecil Dumond Simanga Mbhele

Competition format

Six teams were drawn into two groups.[5] Upon completion of the group stage, the top two teams in each group advance to the semi-finals; the remaining two teams contest a match for fifth / sixth place.

Group stage

All times based on British Summer Time (UTC+01:00)

Group A

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Qualification
1  England (H) 2 2 0 38 11 +27 Semi-finals
2  Malaysia 2 1 1 22 25 −3
3  South Africa 2 0 2 8 30 −22 5th place match
Source: Birmingham 2022
Rules for classification: 1) Wins; 2) Head-to-head record; 3) Points scored.
(H) Hosts
29 July 2022 (2022-07-29)
15:30
England  17–2  South Africa
Pts: Manning 6 Pts: Mtatase 2

30 July 2022 (2022-07-30)
15:30
Malaysia  9–19  England
Pts: Zakaria 5 Pts: Manning 9

31 July 2022 (2022-07-31)
15:30
South Africa  6–13  Malaysia
Pts: Dumond 3 Pts: Hamzah 5

Group B

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Qualification
1  Canada 2 1 1 24 18 +6 Semi-finals
2  Australia 2 1 1 24 24 0
3  Northern Ireland 2 1 1 16 22 −6 5th place match
Source: Birmingham 2022
Rules for classification: 1) Wins; 2) Head-to-head record; 3) Points scored.
29 July 2022 (2022-07-29)
19:30
Canada  11–13  Australia
Pts: Higgins 7 Pts: Dalton 8

30 July 2022 (2022-07-30)
19:30
Northern Ireland  5–13  Canada
Pts: McCabe 3 Pts: Higgins 6

31 July 2022 (2022-07-31)
19:30
Australia  9–11  Northern Ireland
Pts: Dalton, Pople 5 Pts: Nagle 5

Knockout stage

 
Semi-finalsGold medal match
 
      
 
1 August
 
 
 England 11
 
2 August
 
 Australia 12
 
 Australia 11
 
1 August
 
 Canada 9
 
 Canada 14
 
 
 Malaysia 9
 
Bronze medal match
 
 
2 August
 
 
 England 21
 
 
 Malaysia 11

Fifth place match

2 August 2022 (2022-08-02)
15:00
Northern Ireland  10–7  South Africa
Pts: Macsorley 6 Pts: Mbhele 7

Semi-finals

1 August 2022 (2022-08-01)
19:30
England  11–12  Australia
Pts: Manning 7 Pts: Pople, Kavanagh 4

1 August 2022 (2022-08-01)
19:30
Canada  14–9  Malaysia
Pts: Hedges 5 Pts: Johari, Tan Yei Bing 3

Bronze medal match

2 August 2022 (2022-08-02)
15:00
England  21–11  Malaysia
Pts: McIntyre 8 Pts: Zakaria 6

Gold medal match

2 August 2022 (2022-08-02)
19:30
 Australia 11–9  Canada
Pts: Pople 6 Pts: Higgins 5

Final ranking

Rank Team
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Australia
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Canada
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  England
4  Malaysia
5  Northern Ireland
6  South Africa

References

  1. ^ "Competition Schedule". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Wheelchair Basketball Players to Make History at Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games". www.iwbf.org/. International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  3. ^ "NEW TIMEFRAME AND ATHLETE SELECTION PROCESS CONFIRMED FOR BIRMINGHAM 2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES CONTINUES". IWBF. 13 February 2022. Archived from the original on 13 February 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  4. ^ "CHANGES TO THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL CALENDAR". IWBF. 18 February 2022. Archived from the original on 18 February 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Birmingham 2022 3×3 groups confirmed!". British Wheelchair Basketball. 23 May 2022. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved 23 May 2022.