After dominating the competition, their performance initiated the switch from wheelchair netball to wheelchair basketball for future Games. Wheelchair basketball was one of eight sports at the ...

Basketball has been a staple of the Summer Olympics since 1936 ... Brazil won the bronze in 1948, 1960, and 1964; Lithuania in 1992, 1996 and 2000; and the Soviet Union in 1986, 1976 and 1980).