 The Gliders competed in the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Birmingham , where they finished fourth , and the Four Nations Tournament in Canada in July and August 2010 , where they defeated the USA 55 – 37 to claim the gold medal . A major hurdle was qualifying for the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London . The team had to finish first or second at the 2011 Asia Oceania Zone Championship in <unk> , South Korea . A loss to Japan meant that the Gliders had to beat Korea to qualify for London , which they did , 84 – 11 . In the run @-@ up to the London games in 2012 , the Gliders won the Osaka Cup in Japan , came second in another four @-@ nations tournament in Frankfurt , defeated Germany in the Gliders World Challenge in Sydney , and the United States in the BT Paralympic World Cup in Manchester . 
