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National team | Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Zaltbommel, Netherlands [1] | 10 May 1980|||||||||||||||||
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Country | Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||
Sport | Women's Wheelchair Basketball | |||||||||||||||||
Disability | paraplegia | |||||||||||||||||
Disability class | 3.0 | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Carina de Rooij-Versloot (born 10 May 1980) is a Dutch wheelchair basketball player. She is a member of the Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team. She competed at four Paralympic Games and won two Paralympic bronze medal, [2] and a gold medal. [3]
Versloot broke her back in 1999 during gymnastics training at the Hellas gymnastics club in Tiel. As a result, she had incomplete paraplegia. During her rehabilitation at the Rehabilitation Center "De Hoogsstraat" in Utrecht, she came into contact with wheelchair basketball.
After competing at the 2004 Summer Paralympics and 2008 Summer Paralympics she won the bronze medal at the 2012 Paralympics and also four years later at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. [4] [5] She also competed at other international tournaments, including the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship and 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship.
She is a member of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation's Athlete Steering Committee. [6] [7] In daily life she is a child and youth psychologist. [8]
Jennette Jansen is a Paralympian from the Netherlands competing mainly in category TW4 wheelchair racing and later as a basketball player and cyclist. She competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, in Women's individual class 7, winning a gold medal, and in Women's road time trial H4–5 winning a bronze medal.
Sarah Vinci is a 1 point wheelchair basketball player who plays for the Perth Western Stars in the Australian Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League. She made her debut with the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders, in 2011, when she played in the Osaka Cup in Japan. Vinci represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London in wheelchair basketball, winning a silver medal. She represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo.
Matthew McShane is a 1.5 point wheelchair basketball player from Australia. He was a member of the Rollers team that competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, his second Games.
Japan competed as the host nation of the 2020 Summer Paralympics in their capital Tokyo from 24 August to 5 September 2021.
Great Britain competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan. Originally scheduled to take place between 21 August and 6 September 2020, the Games were postponed to 24 August to 5 September 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. British athletes have competed at all sixteen consecutive Summer Paralympics since 1960.
The United States competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan from 24 August to 5 September 2021.
Netherlands competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. This was their sixteenth consecutive appearance at the Summer Paralympics since 1960.
Germany competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. This was their sixteenth consecutive appearance at the Summer Paralympics since 1960.
Spain competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan from 24 August to 5 September 2021. This was Spain's fourteenth appearance at the Paralympic Games. During the Games, Spanish athletes settled 4 World records and 1 Paralympic record.
Canada competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021.
Colombia competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021.
Evelyn van Leeuwen is a Dutch wheelchair basketball player from Leiden. She competed at four Paralympic Games between 1996 and 2016. She won the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Paralympics and 20 years later the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
Anouk Taggenbrock is a 2.5 disability class Dutch wheelchair basketball player and a member of the Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team. She won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, with the national team.
Lindsay Frelink is a Dutch wheelchair basketball player and a member of the Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team. She won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, with the national team.
Cher Korver is a Dutch wheelchair basketball player and a member of the Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team. With the national team she competed at 6 consecutive Summer Paralympics between 2000 and 2020. She won with the team the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, and the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and 2016 Summer Paralympics. She became world champion in 2018 and European champion in 2017 and 2019.
Saskia Pronk is a Dutch wheelchair basketball player and a member of the Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team. She plays as a forward. With the national team she won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, and the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
The Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team represents the Netherlands in international women's wheelchair basketball competitions. The team is known as the Orange Lions. The Dutch women's team is Paralympic champion (2020), two-time world champion and nine-time European champion.
Ilse Arts is a Dutch wheelchair basketball player. She won a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, gold medal at the 2018 world championships and multiple gold medals at the European Championships
Mariska Beijer is a Dutch wheelchair basketball player.
Julia van der Sprong is a Dutch wheelchair basketball player. Van der Sprong plays for DeVeDo (Ermelo) where she plays as a forward.