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Wheelchair rugby is a sport with national representation at the Paralympic games. The Australian Team is known as the 'Steelers'.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=1-8380-0-0-0&sID=211131&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=19211358 )〕 Australia has competed at every Paralympics Games since the sport gained full Paralympic Medal status at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.〔 The Steelers also competed in the 1996 Summer Paralympics where wheelchair rugby was a demonstration sport. The 'Steelers' defeated Canada at the 2012 London Games to win its first gold medal. In 2014, it won its first World Championship by defeating Canada. In winning the world championship, the Steelers became the second nation in history to hold both the Paralympic and world championship titles concurrently. The Australian Paralympic Committee currently manages the Steelers high performance program.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.paralympic.org.au/sports/wheelchair-rugby )〕 The sport is not included at the Special Olympics or the Deaflympics.〔Depauw, K. P., & Gavron, S. J. (2005). ''Disability sport.'' (p. 141) Lower Mitcham, South Australia: Human Kinetics Publishers.〕 ==The game== The sport is one of the few contact sports available for wheelchair sport athletes and was originally known as "Murderball".〔 It was developed in Canada during the 1970s and made its way to Australia in 1981.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theroar.com.au/2012/03/18/great-sport-documentaries-part-four-murderball/ )〕 The sport uses a volleyball for the ball and combines elements of basketball, soccer and ice hockey. The game is played on a basketball sized court.〔Depauw, K. P., & Gavron, S. J. (2005). ''Disability sport.'' (p. 152) Lower Mitcham, South Australia: Human Kinetics Publishers.〕 Each team has four players on the court at any one time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=1-8380-0-0-0&sID=211099 )〕 It has drawn large crowds at events such as the Paralympics. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Australia national wheelchair rugby team」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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