The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is set to welcome the wheelchair basketball teams including the Paralympic and world champions as it hosts the IWBF Wheelchair Basketball World Championships- Dubai 2022 at the World Trade Centre halls from June 9 to 20.
In a tweet on Saturday, the Dubai Media Office released a video about the event, representing 28 international teams with 350 international players.
“Dubai is set to welcome the world’s best wheelchair basketball teams including the Paralympic and world champions when it hosts the IWBF Wheelchair Basketball World Championships- Dubai 2022 at the World Trade Centre halls from June 9 to 20,” it wrote.
#Dubai is set to welcome the world’s best wheelchair basketball teams including the Paralympic and world champions when it hosts the IWBF Wheelchair Basketball World Championships- Dubai 2022 at the World Trade Centre halls from June 9 to 20. @DCDuae pic.twitter.com/0zVMUFWwew
— Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) June 3, 2023
The Championships, to be held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Sports Council and Chairman of the Supreme Committee for the Protection of the Rights of People of Determination, will be held simultaneously with the IWBF Congress that will hold the election of the Federation’s president and members for a new session.
UAE will take on Italy in a Group A game on June 9 to kick off the 12-day showcase event, which will be held for the first time in the Middle East. This will also be the first time that UAE will participate in a Wheelchair Basketball World Championships.
Meanwhile, Thani Juma Berregad, Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Championships, said: “We are looking forward to presenting an exceptional version with all its inspiring messages, which will embody the will of the players.
“In the next few days, the world can see the great role of sport in empowering groups of society, and this is the goal of the championship – to achieve all the goals for which it is held,” he added.
