RC Pune males reign supreme in wheelchair basketball tourney

PRC Pune Men’s beat Project Mumbai Wheelers 42-4 within the last to take win the one lakh prize cash within the first-ever Wheelchair Basketball Premier league held on the YMCA International House at Bombay Central on Sunday.

Wheelchair basketball is a Paralympics occasion, and the match was held to kick-start a program that may establish 1000 wheelchair hoopsters and put together an Indian crew sooner or later. The Mumbai males had crushed Pune 12-10 on the Mastan YMCA Nagpada on Saturday.

Runners up, the crew from Project Mumbai obtained a prize cheque of Rs 50 thousand.

The Project Mumbai wheelers girls’s crew obtained the highest slot within the girls part last, with a slim 14-12 win beating Project Mumbai Pune Ryder’s. Equal prize cash was the spotlight ofthis occasion.

Second runners-up in males, Project Mumbai Pune Ryder’s, walked residence with 30 thousand.

Workshops for fogeys of differently-abled youngsters will likely be invited for workshops within the coming months to induct them into the Wheelers program. A wider aim of the match was to lift consciousness about accessibility for differently-abled.

Wheelchair basketball is performed on basketball courts the identical dimension as on which common hoopsters compete. And the peak of the hoops is precisely the identical. Basic wheelchairs costing Rs 45000 have been procured by Project Mumbai, although skilled gamers will obtain customised wheelers within the coming days.