International Comparison of Life-style of Wheelchair Basketball Athletes

International Comparison of Life-style of Wheelchair Basketball Athletes

Today the adapted sports became so popular and have been still making rapid progress of the standard worldwide. Wheelchair basketball is well-recognized as one of the core sports and in fact a number ofthe disabled and the non-disabled athletes have been playing it. This study tried clarifying the life-style of the athletes wlth disabihty for women’s wheelchair basketball ‘ And then an international comparison of the life-style between Japan and foreign countries was done in this study. For the purpose, a survey of questionnaire on life -style was conducted at an international championship of wheelchair basketball in Osaka, Japan which was attended by the total 48 disabled athletes of Japan, Australia, Canada and USA in February, 2010. A survey on the athlete-profile was conducted as well.