page_title: Jannik Blair
section_title: Wheelchair basketball
hierarchical_section_title: Jannik Blair / Wheelchair basketball
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Australian Paralympic team member Jannik Blair at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London
context_page_description: Jannik Blair is a 1 point wheelchair basketball player who has played for the University of Missouri and the National Wheelchair Basketball League Dandenong Rangers. He is a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team, making his debut in 2009, and was member of the Australian team that won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in wheelchair basketball.
context_section_description: Blair is a 1 point wheelchair basketball player. As of 2012, he has a scholarship with the Victorian Institute of Sport.
  Blair first played wheelchair basketball in 2005, and attended a Ballarat, Victoria hosted APC Paralympic Talent Search in 2006.  At the event, they encouraged him to continue in the sport.
  Blair played in the National Wheelchair Basketball League (NWBL) in 2009, finishing the season by being named to the All-Star 5. As of 2012, he plays for the Dandenong Rangers in the NWBL, and joined for and was playing for University of Missouri team in the United States National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) as of 2012. In late 2012, Blair was presented with offers several offers from American universities, including the University of Missouri, Columbia, and the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. After much consideration, Blair chose to take up a scholarship from the University of Alabama. He will dress for them in the Spring season of 2013.
  Blair made his national team debut in 2009 at the Asia Oceania Wheelchair Basketball Championships where he averaged 0.3 points per game.  Later that year, he competed in the Rollers World Challenge, and the IWBF U23 World Championship where his team finished fourth. At the 2011 Wheelchair Tri Series where he played in games against South Africa and the Netherlands, he averaged 0.8 points per game.  In August of that year, he also competed in the International Tournament of Champions. In October 2011, he participated in a national team training camp in Canberra. He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in wheelchair basketball.  The Games were his first. Going into the London Paralympics, his team was ranked number one in the world.  He had to earn his spot as fourteen men had been vying for spots on the team.
  At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he was part of the Australian men's wheelchair team that won silver.  He was a member of the Rollers team that won the gold medal at the 2014 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships. In 2016, he was selected for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, where his team, the Rollers, finished sixth.
  In 2018, he was a member of the Rollers that won the bronze medal at 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg, Germany.
caption: Blair at the 2012 London Paralympics
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