Wheelchair Basketball
The United States qualified for both men's and women's wheelchair basketball tournaments at the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation qualifying tournaments for the Americas. The men's team finished in fourth place after losing to Great Britain in the bronze final. The women's team successfully defended their 2004 gold medal with a win over Germany.
- Men
| Squad list | Group stage (Pool B) |
Quarterfinal | Semifinal |
Final (Bronze final) |
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| Rank | Rank | |||||
| From:
Eric Barber |
Israel W 76–53 |
2 Q | Iran W 20–0* |
Canada L 62–69 |
Great Britain L 77–85 |
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| Brazil W 87–41 |
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| Great Britain L 50–54 |
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| China W 97–38 |
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| Australia W 68–61 |
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*Iran withdrew from its quarterfinal match against the United States on September 19, 2008. The match had been rescheduled from 11:15am to 9:00am, but was changed without any logical reason according to the head of Iran's delegation. As a result, the U.S. was awarded the win by the score of 20–0 and automatically advanced to the semi-finals.
- Women
| Squad list | Group stage (Pool A) |
Quarterfinal | Semifinal |
Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Rank | |||||
| From:
Sarah Castle |
Germany W 42–38 |
1 Q | China W 75–31 |
Australia W 60–47 |
Germany W 50–38 |
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| Australia W 61–42 |
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| Great Britain W 56–31 |
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| Brazil W 68–38 |
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Read more about this topic: United States At The 2008 Summer Paralympics
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“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)