Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team

Netherlands

IWBF zone	Europe
National federation	NBB
Coach	Joost van Rangelrooij
Nickname	Orange Lions
Paralympic Games
Appearances	10
Medals	:2 :1 :4
World Championships
Appearances	9
Medals	:2 :0 :1
European Championship
Appearances	19
Medals	:10 :8 :1
Home Away
Medal record Paralympic Games 1988 Seoul 1992 Barcelona 1996 Atlanta 2012 London 2016 Rio de Janeiro 2020 Tokyo World Championships 2014 Toronto 2018 Hamburg 2022 Dubai European Championships 1987 Lorient 1989 Charleville-Mézières 1991 El Ferrol 1993 Berlin 1995 Delden 1997 Madrid 1999 Roermond 2003 Hamburg 2005 Villeneuve-d'Ascq 2007 Wetzlar 2009 Stoke Mandeville 2011 Nazareth 2013 Frankfurt 2015 Worcester 2017 Adeje 2019 Rotterdam 2021 Madrid 2023 Rotterdam 2025 Sarajevo

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 two-time Paralympic champion (2020, 2024), two-time world champion (2018, 2023) and ten-time European champion.

The team won the women's tournament at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan. ^{[1] [2]}

Paralympic Games

Year # Pld W L 1968 Tel Aviv Did not qualify 1972 Heidelberg 1976 Toronto 1980 Arnhem 1984 Stoke Mandeville ? 1988 Seoul 3rd 6 4 2 1992 Barcelona 3rd 5 3 2 1996 Atlanta 2nd 5 3 2 2000 Sydney 4th 5 2 3 2004 Athens 7th 6 1 5 2008 Beijing 6th 7 3 4 2012 London 3rd 7 5 2 2016 Rio de Janeiro 3rd 7 5 2 2020 Tokyo 1st 7 6 1 2024 Paris 1st 6 6 0 Total 11/15 61 38 23

World Championships

Year # Pld W L 1990 Saint-Étienne 4th 1994 Stoke Mandeville 4th 1998 Sydney 6th 2002 Kitakyushu 6th 2006 Amsterdam 5th 2010 Birmingham 5th 7 4 3 2014 Toronto 3rd 8 7 1 2018 Hamburg 1st 8 8 0 2022 Dubai 1st 8 8 0 Total 9/9

See also

• Netherlands men's national wheelchair basketball team

References

1. Pavitt, Michael (4 September 2021). "The Netherlands win maiden women's wheelchair basketball gold at Tokyo 2020". InsideTheGames.biz . Retrieved 8 January 2022.
2. "Wheelchair Basketball Results Book" (PDF). 2020 Summer Paralympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-09-06. Retrieved 8 January 2022.

External links

• "Basketball - Women's Paralympic Games [2012- ]". the-sports.org.
• "Basketball - Women's Wheelchair World Championships [2010 - ]". the-sports.org.
• "Basketball - Women's Wheelchair European Championships [2015 - ]". the-sports.org.
• Wheelchair Basketball at the 1988 Summer Paralympics (Seoul) from the International Paralympic Committee (archived)
• Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Wheelchair Basketball
• "Wheelchair Basketball Results Book" (PDF). 2020 Summer Paralympics. 5 September 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-09-06.
• "World Championships Past Results". International Wheelchair Basketball Federation.
• Team's page on basketball.nl
• Team History on basketball.nl
• teamnl.org