Great Britain national wheelchair rugby team

Great Britain GRB
IWRF Ranking	5th
IWRF Zone	IWRF European
National Federation	GBWR
Coach	Tom O'Connor
Paralympic Games
Appearances	4
Medals	–
World Championships
Appearances	5
Medals	–
IWRF European Championship
Appearances	9
Medals	Gold: 1995, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2015 Silver: 1997, 2011 Bronze: 1999
Uniforms
Red Blue

The Great Britain national wheelchair rugby team represents Great Britain in international wheelchair rugby. Great Britain is the most successful team in European competition, winning five gold medals at the European Championship.

Paralympics

Great Britain has competed in every wheelchair rugby tournament at the Paralympic Games, first when it was a demonstration sport in 1996, then since it entered the official program in 2000.^[1] Since Great Britain was the host of the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, they qualified automatically for the wheelchair rugby event, as they were ranked on the IWRF Wheelchair Rugby World Ranking List ^[2][3]

Roster

The 2016 Squad is as follows:^[4]

#	Class	Name	Year Born	Team
	2.0	Chris Ryan	11/07/91
	2.0	Gavin Walker	13/10/83
	1.5	Mike Kerr	13/10/82
	2.5	Jamie Stead	22/09/93
	2.0	Coral Batey	06/05/95
	2.5	Ayaz Bhuta	17/04/89
	3.0	Jim Roberts	03/09/87
	2.5	Mandip Sehmi	13/12/80
	0.5	Jonathan Coggan	25/04/83
	1.0	Bulbul Hussain	3/01/72
	2.0	Alan Ash	27/01/73
	1.0	Ryan Cowling	05/02/76

Competitive record

Paralympic Games Paralympic Games results Year Position Pld W L 2000 6th 5 2 3 2004 4th 6 4 2 2008 4th 5 2 3 2012 5th 5 3 2 2012[5] 5th Total 21 11 10

IWRF World championship Year Position Pld W L 1995 4th 9 3 6 1998 7th ? ? ? 2002 5th 7 5 2 2006 4th 7 5 2 2010 6th 7 3 4 2014 5th 7 5 2 Total 37 21 16

Past Rosters

The Great Britain players at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing.

2008 Paralympic Games:

2012 Paralympic Games:

References

• A Laypersons Guide to Wheelchair Rugby Classification, International Wheelchair Rugby Federation (IWRF)

External links

• Team GB at GBWR
• From Murderball to medals in 2012? (video) at BBC London

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International wheelchair rugby
IWRF Paralympics World Championship
Americas	IWRF Americas Americas Championship
Asia-Oceania	IWRF Asia-Oceania Asia-Oceania Championship
Europe	IWRF European European Championship