2010 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships
Dates: 7-17 July, National Indoor Arena, Birmingham
Coverage: Daily reports on the BBC Sport website; video highlights from selected games.

Veteran Simon Munn led the scoring for Great Britain

The Great Britain men's wheelchair basketball team continued their winning run at the World Championships with a 78-66 success over the United States.

The success in their last pool game ensures the Beijing bronze medallists top their pool ahead of Wednesday's quarter-finals.

A strong final quarter by GB, led by Simon Munn (21 points) and Ian Sagar (17) helped them to victory.

The GB women claimed their first win of the tournament, beating Mexico 57-50.

Garry Peel's side had lost by eight points or fewer to the Netherlands, Canada and Australia in their first three pool games.

But they finally got their reward against Mexico, pulling away in the final quarter and holding their nerve to claim the victory.

Once again, Helen Freeman led the GB scoring with 18 points but there was good support from both Helen Turner and Louise Sugden and squad newcomer Amy Conroy.

They will now face a difficult task in the quarter-finals against an unbeaten US side.

The GB men, who have been in superb form in their pool games, were tied at 51-51 with the US going into the final 10 minutes of the match with Simon Brown and Ghaz Choudhry impressing for Murray Treseder's home side.

But GB upped the tempo after that which allowed them to run out comfortable winners and set up a last-eight meeting with France on Wednesday.

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