Sport: | Wheelchair rugby |
Administrator: | WWR |
Established: | 1995 |
Stat1 Label: | Current champion |
Stat2 Label: | Most titles |
Stat1: | (2nd title) |
Stat2: | (4 titles) |
World Wheelchair Rugby Championships is an international wheelchair rugby competition contested by the national teams of the members of World Wheelchair Rugby (WWR), the sport's global governing body.
The first Wheelchair Rugby World Championships was held in Notwil, Switzerland in 1995.[1]
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Year | Host (final location) | width=1% rowspan=10 bgcolor=ffffff | Gold medal game | width=1% rowspan=10 bgcolor=ffffff | Bronze medal game | ||||||
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Gold | width=8% | Score | Silver | Bronze | width=8% | Score | width=15% | Fourth place | |||
1995 | Switzerland (Nottwil) | 41–36 | 41–28 | ||||||||
1998 | Canada (Toronto) | 31–28 | 44–35 | ||||||||
2002 | Sweden (Gothenburg) | 25–24 | 45–38 | ||||||||
2006 | (Christchurch) | 34–30 | 23–19 | ||||||||
2010 | Canada (Vancouver) | 57–45 | 53–47 | ||||||||
2014 | Denmark (Odense) | 67–56 | 62–56 | ||||||||
2018 | Australia (Sydney) | 62–61 | 47–36 | ||||||||
2022 | Denmark (Vejle) | 58–55 | 61–57 |
Team | 1995 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2014 | 2018 | 2022 | Total | ||||||
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– | – | – | – | 12th | – | – | – | 1 | |||||||
5th | 5th | 3rd | 6th | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 8 | |||
– | 11th | 12th | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | |||||||
– | 8th | 4th | 8th | 7th | 12th | – | – | 5 | |||||||
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | 11th | 1 | |||||||
bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 3rd | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 3rd | 5th | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 6th | 5th | 8 | ||||
– | – | – | – | – | – | 10th | 9th | 2 | |||||||
– | – | – | 12th | – | 6th | 7th | 4th | 4 | |||||||
– | 12th | – | – | 11th | 10th | – | – | 3 | |||||||
– | – | – | – | – | 9th | 5th | 6th | 3 | |||||||
– | 6th | 9th | 7th | 10th | 11th | – | 10th | 6 | |||||||
4th | 7th | 5th | 4th | 6th | 5th | 4th | 7th | 8 | |||||||
– | – | – | – | – | – | 12th | – | 1 | |||||||
– | – | 8th | 5th | 3rd | 4th | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 3rd | 6 | ||||||
7th | 9th | 10th | 10th | – | – | – | – | 4 | |||||||
3rd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 6th | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 9th | 8th | 11th | 8th | 8 | |||||
– | – | – | – | 8th | – | 9th | – | 2 | |||||||
6th | 4th | 7th | 9th | 4th | 7th | 8th | – | 7 | |||||||
8th | 10th | 11th | 11th | – | – | – | 12th | 5 | |||||||
bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 8 | |
Number of teams | 8 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 20 |
See main article: world championships.