Great Britain national wheelchair rugby team
The Great Britain national wheelchair rugby team represents Great Britain in international wheelchair rugby.Great Britain is the most successful team in European competition, winning six gold medals at the European Championship and a gold at the 2020 Paralympic Games.Since a national poll as part of The Last Leg, the team have been known as The Sweet Chariots.[1] Great Britain has competed in every wheelchair rugby tournament at the Paralympic Games, first when it was a demonstration sport in 1996, then since it entered the official program in 2000.[2] Since Great Britain was the host of the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, they qualified automatically for the wheelchair rugby event, as they were ranked on the IWRF Wheelchair Rugby World Ranking List[3][4] The squad selected for the 2020 Paralympics is as follows:[5]