CS Meaux (WBC)
France's most decorated wheelchair basketball club.
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CS Meaux Handibasket is France’s leading wheelchair basketball club, holding five European trophies and eighteen national titles. Domestically, the club has won the top-tier French Wheelchair Basketball Nationale 1A championship 18 times, most recently in 2016–17, and the French Wheelchair Basketball Cup 13 times, with its last victory in 2011–12. On the European stage, the team has claimed three IWBF Champions Cup titles (1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01), one André Vergauwen Cup (2009–10), and one Willi Brinkmann Cup (2010–11). The club plays its home games at Gymnase Fontaine and Complexe Sportif Tauziet (Halle des Sports Christian Rousel).
Background
CS Meaux Handibasket has been a dominant force in French wheelchair basketball, winning its first Nationale 1A title in 1980–81 and its most recent in 2016–17. The club also won the second-division Nationale 1B in 1986–87 and the third-division Nationale 1C in 2013–14 via its second team. In the French Cup, the club has 13 victories, with a streak of nine consecutive wins from 1992–93 to 2000–01.
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