Steve Serio leads wheelchair basketball with a triple-double in day one

Workforce GB begins wheelchair basketball with two massive wins

Nice Britain‘s males’s wheelchair basketball group began pool play with a giant 76-55 win over Germany. Gregg Warburton led all scorers with 24 factors within the win.

“There are some actually nice groups. The match is totally stacked. Seven different world-class groups. I actually imagine the one group that may beat us is ourselves. So long as we deal with the little issues, management ourselves, take care of ourselves, we’ll be good come the top,” Warburton stated.

ParalympicsGB was victorious on the ladies’s aspect of wheelchair basketball, as nicely. Nice Britain received 69-34 over Spain, with Jade Atkin main her group with 19 factors in her Paralympic debut.

“It feels wonderful. I really feel such a superb vibe. I am so blissful proper now. It was such a superb sport to start out with. I labored for this second and right here I’m. I lastly bought right here,” Atkin stated after the win. “It is wonderful to have such expertise with numerous athletes that each one have the identical mentality as you. We’re all right here for a medal. All of us must work arduous. It is good to have that in a togetherness setting.”

In different motion, the Individuals’s Republic of China’s ladies’s wheelchair basketball group had eight steals of their 70-65 win over Canada. Within the closing sport of the night time, Australia’s males had a giant lead early over the Netherlands. However the Dutch gamers stormed again within the fourth quarter, and received the sport 66-55.