The 2017 Asia Oceania Wheelchair Basketball Championships for men and women were held at the China Disability Sports Training Centre in Beijing, from 23 to 28 October 2017. The men's tournament was won by the Australian Rollers. Iran came second, and Japan overcame Korea in the bronze medal game to come third. In the women's competition, China defeated the Australian Gliders in the gold medal match, while Japan defeated Iran in the bronze medal.
Venue
The competition was held at the China Disability Sports Training Centre in Beijing. This is a purpose-built centre for disability sports. Opened on 28 June 2007, it was the first facility in China entirely devoted to disability sports training, and is the largest of its kind in the world. The Chinese Paralympic team used it as its training and preparation centre for the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. The entire complex is wheelchair accessible, with large elevators and wide halls.
Format The competition was held from 23 to 28 October 2017. Fourteen teams contested the men's competition. The teams were divided into four pools: Pool A: Australia, Chinese Taipei, Iraq Pool B: Japan, Hong Kong, Kuwait Pool C: Iran, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand Pool D: Korea, China, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan The teams in each pool played a round robin competition. The top team in Pool A then played the second in Pool B, the top in Pool B played the second in Pool A, the top in Pool C played the second in Pool D, and the top in Pool D played the second in Pool C in the quarterfinals. The winners then played in the semifinals, and the winners of the semifinals played in the gold medal match.
The prize for the top four teams was admission to the 2018 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Hamburg, Germany.
In the women's competition, there were only four teams, so they formed just one pool, and went straight into the semifinals. Only two positions were available for women's teams from Asia-Oceania in Hamburg, where the women's competition will be held concurrently with the men's.
Squads Women's competition
Head coach: David Gould Assistant coaches: Stephen Charlton Physiotherapist: Anna Rich Team Manager: Cathy Lambert
#NameClass. 4 Sarah Vinci 1.0 5 Cobi Crispin 4.0 6 Hannah Dodd 1.0 7 Shelley Cronau 3.0 8 Georgia Inglis 2.0 9 Leanne Del Toso 3.5 10 Clare Nott 1.0 11 Annabelle Lindsay 4.5 12 Shelley Chaplin 3.5 13 Georgia Munro-Cook 4.5 14 Ella Sabljak 1.0 15 Amber Merritt 4.5 Source:
Team Manager: Chen Weidong Coach group leader: Xu YuanshengCoach: Chen QiCoach:Han Yan #NameClass. 4 Tianjao Lei 4.5 5 Xuejing Chen 1.0 6 Xuemei Zhang 4.0 7 Guidi Liu 4.0 8 Yongqing Fu 4.0 9 Haizhen Cheng 4.5 10 Suiling Lin 3.0 11 Jaimeng Dai 4.5 12 Tonglei Zhang 1.0 13 Yanhua Li 1.5 14 Meier Chen 1.5 15 Xiaolian Huang 2.0 Source:
Head coach: Mehri YoussefzadehsaniCoach: Solkmaz DehghanTeam Manager: Hourish Baradaran #NameClass. 4 Roghayyeh Amiri 2.5 5 Maryam Dehghani Champirl 1.5 6 Mahsa Saadatzeidanloo 4.0 7 Nerda Fersati 3.5 8 Mardieh Khakbaz Alia Bad 1.5 9 Fattaneh Pourat 4.0 10 Zehra Habbibi Parali 2.0 11 Zeinhab Hassani 4.0 12 Somayeh Kohzadpour 2.5 13 Tahereh Ozhand 1.0 14 Fatemeh Kashmirimoghadam 4.0 15 Zohreh Karinovi 4.0 Source:
Head coach: Kaori TachibanaAssistant Coach: Kyoko TsukamotoTeam Staff: Natsuki IshidaInterpreter: Yurie Myamoto #NameClass. 0 Momoko Suzuki 4.0 4 Amane Yanagimoto 2.5 6 Erika Yoshida 1.0 9 Chika Uemura 3.5 10 Mayo Hagino 1.5 12 Ikumi Fujii 4.0 15 Mari Amimoto 4.5 17 Tomoe Soeda 3.5 18 Chihiro Kitada 4.5 19 You Kitama 1.0 26 Mika Oshima 1.5 88 Rie Odajima 2.5 Source:
Men's competition
Head coach: Craig Friday Assistant coach: Brad Ness Assistant/Technical coach: Shane Furness Physiotherapist: Jesse Adams
#NameClass. 4 Shawn Russell 4.0 5 Bill Latham 4.0 6 Samuel White 1.0 7 Shaun Norris 3.0 8 Kim Robbins 3.0 9 Tristan Knowles 4.0 10 Jannik Blair 1.0 11 Tom O'Neill-Thorne 3.0 12 Matthew McShane 1.5 13 Luke Pople 2.5 14 Brett Stibners 4.0 15 Michael Auprince 4.0 Source:
Head Coach: Swee Haw Chee Team Manager: Chiu Wah Wong Team Physiotherapist: Hong Ki Maggie Ho #NameClass. 4 Chi Hung Lee 2.0 5 Alphonsus Gee Git To 4.5 6 Chun Man Chan 3.0 7 Chi Hang Cheung 1.0 8 Ho Yin DEnnis Chon 4.0 9 Cheong Chun Tang 2.0 10 Hai Poon 1.5 11 Wing Kin Chang 4.0 13 Kwok Leung Jam 3.0 14 Cheuk Ting Chung 4.0 15 Yan Keung Cheng 1.0 17 Xwok Gu Yeung 3.5 Source:
Team Manager: Zhao Qian Team Leader: Yang Weiping Coach: Zhai Youngjun Coach: Cul Manfeng
#NameClass. 4 Yinhai LIn 3.5 5 Huajun Tan 4.0 6 Jianchun Deng 3.5 7 Lei Yan 2.5 8 Chen Cao 2.0 9 Kunhong Huang 1.5 10 Lei Yang 3.5 11 Zheng Yang 4.0 12 Pengcheng Li 1.0 13 Hang Xu 2.5 14 Haiming Zhu 1.5 15 Yangdong You 2.0 Source:
Head coach: Mohammadreza Dastyar Coach: Maziyar Mirazimi Wheelchair Technician: Feridon Kheshtzar Team Manager: Habib Khomjani
#NameClass. 5 Hassan Abdi 2.0 7 Omid Hadiazhar 4.0 8 Vahid Saadatpoormoghadam 3.0 9 Faleh Ayashi 2.0 10 Mohsen Tolouei Tamardash 3.5 11 Mohammad Mohammadnezhad 1.0 12 Alireza Kamilifard 3.0 14 Abdoljalil Gharanjik 1.5 15 Adel Torfi Menshedi 4.0 23 Saman Balaghi Einalou 1.0 24 Mohammadhassan Sayari 4.0 33 Morteza Abedi 3.0 Source:
Head of Delegation: Khaid Al-Kaabawi Administrator: Abbas Al-Kawaawi Coach: Mohanad Al-Sammaraie Coach: Qusay Al-Angurli Therapist: Hakeem Al-Ismee
#NameClass. 1 Raad Al-Kahfaji 4.0 2 Thamar Mandeel 2.0 3 Alaaa Al-Baidhani 1.0 4 Ayad Al-Hameedawi 2.0 5 Issa Al-Yasiri 1.5 6 Heyder Al-Saraji 4.0 7 Ahmed Mushtaq 3.0 8 Dheyaa Al-Sudani 1.0 9 Layth Al-Attabi 4.0 10 Said Al-Taie 4.0 11 Alaa Abdullah 3.5 Source:
Head of Delegation: Naser Alajmi Team Manager: Mohammad Alainati Head Coach: Hosan Galab Assistant Coach: Ahmad Alshatti
#NameClass. 1 Nezar Mohammad 3.5 2 Yousuf Nasir 4.0 3 Mohammad Algharib 3.0 4 Ahmad Almutairi 1.0 5 Mohammad Aljail 1.0 6 Salaiman Alfahdli 1.0 7 Eisa Alfahdli 1.5 8 Majed Aldhaye 4.0 9 Atef Aldousari 1.0 10 Abdullah Alkaldi TBC 11 Fahad Alajmi TBC 12 Abdulrahman Abdulmataleb TBC Source:
Team Staff: Abdulalah Almuqrin Team Staff: Ibrahim Younesbr Team Staff: Ibrahim Bessai Team Staff: Kaled Alabdali
#NameClass. 1 Abdulrahman Bin Shaylan 3.5 2 Fahad Bin Diran 4.0 3 Ali Albishi 3.5 4 Essam Buayti 2.5 5 Abdullah Alfifi 2.0 6 Mahdi Almakinah 1.5 7 Feisel Asiri 3.5 8 Musa Alzahrani 4.0 9 Safar Aldosari 1.0 10 Ziyad Alkhaldi 2.5 11 Mohammed Alqahtani 1.5 12 Mohammed Alyousef 2.0 Source:
Coach: Jess Markt Coach: Qawamudim Chafori Physiotherapist: Mohammad Ayub Rahimi Physiotherapist: Mohammad Afzal Asiami Senior Advisor/Manager: Alberto Cairo
#NameClass. 1 Khujah Wasiquallah Sediqi 4.0 2 Mohammad Saber Sultani 3.0 3 Safi Mohammad 2.0 4 Mohamadullah Ahmadi 1.0 5 Sayed Nazir Qatali 4.0 6 Basir Ahmad Tajiki 1.0 7 Ramazan Karimi 3.0 8 Sakhi Mohammad Noorzy 3.5 9 Mohammad Alem Muradi 2.5 10 Abdul Ghafar Gharfoori 4.0 11 Sayed Wasim Sadat 4.0 12 Ghulam Haidar 2.5 Source:
Head Coach: Shimpei Assistant Coach: Kazuyuki Kyoya Physical Coach: Masato Arima Coordinator: Hiromi Kosugi
#NameClass. 2 Akira Toyoshima 2.0 4 Daisuke Tsuchiko 4.0 5 Renshi Chokai 2.5 6 Rin Kawahara 1.5 7 Takuya Furusawa 3.0 10 Tetsuya Miyajima 4.0 11 Kiyoshi 2.0 13 Reo Fujimoto 4.5 24 Naohiro Murakami 4.0 25 Kei Akita 3.5 55 Hiroaki Kozai 3.5 92 Takahiro Akeda 1.0 Source:
Team Manager: Phatharabhandhu Krissana Head Coach: Aghacoucheki Abbas Assistant Coach: Pittaya Prathin Assistant Coach: Akapol Kunpradit
#NameClass. 4 Kwanchai Pimkorn 3.5 5 Somphong Thiyod 4.0 6 Niwat Gongta 3.0 7 Visut Suk-on 1.0 8 Surasit Nirat 1.0 9 Jakkapan Jansupin 1.0 10 Tawatchai Jaisin 1.5 11 Athin Singdong 4.0 12 Pongsakor Sripirom 1.0 13 Mathee Yenkuan TBC 14 Nopaddol Wannaborworn TBC 15 Aekkasit Jumjarean TBC Source:
Head Coach: Shane Davies Assistant Coach: Glenn McDonald Team Manager: Michelle Davies
#NameClass. 1 Sheldon Larson 4.5 2 Ricardo Gozon 4.0 3 Miiarama Pepe 3.5 4 Luke McDowell 3.5 5 Ben Hekenui 4.0 6 Eamon Wood 2.5 7 Mark Sullivan 2.0 8 Paul Fallon 1.0 9 Travis Moffat 1.0 10 Kauri Murray 4.0 11 Reo Lewis 3.0 12 Slade O'Rourke St John 2.0 Source:
Coach: Sa Hyun Han Assistant Coach: Heejun Kang Trainer: Young Jun Kim Team Manager: Seonyeon Lee
#NameClass. 8 Hee Yong Choi 2.039 Sangyeol Kim TBC16 Younjoo Lee 3.512 Seunghyun Cho 4.015 Kyung Min Chung TBC13 Sangha Baek 1.010 Dung Suk Oh 2.0 5 Jungsoo Kim 1.5 34 Dong Gil Yang TBC 7 Taeok Kim TBC 28 Donghyeon Kim 4.0 6 Woosung Wang 2.0 Source:
Head Coach: Chi-Yang Tsai Coach: Hsin-Liang Lo Coach: Pei-Ni Tai Team Leader: Fou-Hwan Lai Team Manager: Ting-Chi Pan Wheelchiar Technician: Ken-Jung Chen
#NameClass. 0 Chun-Yi Lu 3.0 1 Chang-Chia Wang 2.0 7 Chung-Jen Chen 2.0 11 Kun-Tin Wang TBC 14 Chia-Tung Chang 1.0 15 Yi-Chen Chen 2.5 21 Hang-Shiang Kao 3.0 22 Wei-Chun Chang 4.0 34 Chun-Nan Chi 2.0 37 Sheng-Han Tseng 4.0 66 Wei-Chang Tsai 2.5 99 Chuang-Yi Qiu 2.5 Source:
Women's competition Round robin stage
Finals
Men's competition Round robin stage
Finals
13th/14th
9–12
9–12
Quarterfinal 1
Quarterfinal 2
Quarterfinal 3
Quarterfinal 4
11th/12th
9th/10th
5–8
5–8
Semifinal 1
Semifinal 2
7th/8th
5th/6th
Bronze Medal
Gold Medal
All Stars
Men
All Star Five Mohammadhasan Sayari (Iran – 4.0) Jannik Blair (Australia – 1.0) Dong Suk Oh (South Korea – 2.0) Tom O'Neill-Thorne (Australia – 3.0) Hiroaki Kozai (Japan – 3.5)
Most Valuable Player Omid Hadiazhar (Iran – 4.0)
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Women
All Star Five Mari Amimoto (Japan – 4.5) Cobi Crispin (Australia – 4.0) Xuejing Chen (China – 1.0) Clare Nott (Australia – 1.0) Suiling Lin (China – 3.0)
Most Valuable Player Amber Merritt (AUS – 4.5) Source:
Final standings
Men Rank Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Women Rank Team 1 2 3 4
See also 2007 Asia Oceania Wheelchair Basketball Championships 2009 Asia Oceania Wheelchair Basketball Championships 2011 Asia Oceania Wheelchair Basketball Championships 2013 Asia Oceania Wheelchair Basketball Championships 2015 Asia Oceania Wheelchair Basketball Championships 2019 Asia Oceania Wheelchair Basketball Championships 2021 Asia Oceania Wheelchair Basketball Championships
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