| Wheelchair basketball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics | ||
|---|---|---|
 | ||
| Tournament | men | women |
| Rosters | men | women |
This is a list of players that participated in the women's wheelchair basketball competition at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. The venue for the event was the National Stadium. [1]
Australia | Name |
|---|
| Cobi Crispin |
| Melanie Domaschenz |
| Bridie Kean |
| Tina McKenzie |
| Clare Burzynski |
| Melanie Hall |
| Katie Hill |
| Kathleen O'Kelly-Kennedy |
| Shelley Chaplin |
| Sarah Stewart |
| Kylie Gauci |
| Liesl Tesch |
Brazil 
Germany | Name |
|---|
| Birgit Meitner |
| Edina Anita Muller |
| Nora Schratz |
| Britta Kautz |
| Alke Behrens |
| Nicole Seifert |
| Gesche Schunemann |
| Simone Kues |
| Annette Kahl |
| Annika Zeyen |
| Maren Butterbrodt |
| Marina Mohnen |
Great Britain | Name |
|---|
| Ann Wild |
| Pauline McDonald |
| Jill Fox |
| Joanne Harper |
| Paula Johnson |
| Caroline Matthews |
| Louise Sugden |
| Helen Freeman [2] |
| Helen Turner |
| Caroline MacLean |
| Clare Strange |
| Sally Wager |
United States [3] | Name |
|---|
| Emily Hoskins |
| Patty Cisneros |
| Alana Nichols |
| Rebecca Murray |
| Natalie Schneider [4] |
| Sarah Castle |
| Carlee Hoffman |
| Loraine Gonzales |
| Stephanie Wheeler [5] |
| Christina Ripp |
| Jen Ruddell |
| Mary Allison Milford |
Canada The following is the Canada roster in the women's wheelchair basketball tournament of the 2012 Summer Paralympics. [6]
| Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team-2012 Summer Paralympics roster | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | Coaches | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
China | Name |
|---|
| Mihuan Liu |
| Qiuping Cao |
| Santao Zhang |
| Wenhua Hao |
| Yongqing Fu |
| Li Gu |
| Yanhua Li |
| Qiurong Chen |
| Fengling Peng |
| Damei Chen |
| Donghuai Zheng |
| Chao Yang |
Japan | Name |
|---|
| Tomoe Soeda |
| Miki Uramoto |
| Naoko Sugahara |
| Rie Kawakami |
| Tomomi Kosuzuki |
| Kimi Taneda |
| Erika Yoshida |
| Yuka Betto |
| Mika Takabayashi |
| Megumi Mashiko |
| Ikumi Takubo |
| Mari Amimoto |
Mexico 
Netherlands | Name |
|---|
| Jitske Visser |
| Patries Boekhoorn |
| Fleur Pieterse |
| Sandra Braam |
| Brenda Ramaekers |
| Barbara van Bergen |
| Petra Garnier |
| Elsbeth van Oostrom |
| Inge Huitzing |
| Cher Korver |
| Roos Oosterbaan |
| Carina Versloot |
Steven Dillon Serio is a wheelchair basketball player. As a co-captain of the USA Men's National Wheelchair Basketball Team, he led the American men to their first Paralympic gold medal since 1988 at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games and defended the gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. He currently plays for the New York Rolling Knicks in the NWBA Championship Division.
Shelley Matheson is an Australian 3.5-point player wheelchair basketball player. She participated in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, where she won a silver medal; in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, where she won a bronze medal, and the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won a second silver medal, a win she dedicated to her lifelong friend Shannon.
The United States sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. A total of 213 U.S. competitors took part in 18 sports; the only 2 sports Americans did not compete in were soccer 5-a-side and 7-a-side. The American delegation included 16 former members of the U.S. military, including 3 veterans of the Iraq War. Among them were shot putter Scott Winkler, who was paralyzed in an accident in Iraq, and swimmer Melissa Stockwell, a former United States Army officer who lost her left leg to a roadside bomb in the war.
Wheelchair basketball has been contested at the Summer Paralympic Games since the 1960 Summer Paralympics in Rome.
Alana Jane Nichols is an American Paralympic wheelchair basketball player and alpine skier.
Patrick Anderson is a Canadian wheelchair basketball player and a six-time member of Canada's Paralympic Team.
Cindy Ouellet is a Canadian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player. Ouellet is part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Rebecca Marie Murray is an American wheelchair basketball player and member of the United States women's national wheelchair basketball team. She is a three-time Parapan American Games gold medalist in 2007, 2011 and 2023. In 2010, she won two more gold medals at IWBF World Championship and at U25 World Championship in 2011.
Simone Kues is a German 1.0 point national wheelchair basketball player who plays in the wheelchair basketball league for Hamburg SV. She joined the national team, and participated in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, at which the German team came fourth. She won bronze at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Amsterdam in 2006. Her team were won the European championship in 2005, 2007 and 2009. She won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. The women's national team were voted Team of the Year in disabled sports in 2008, and President Horst Köhler awarded them the Silver Laurel Leaf, Germany's highest German sports award.
The Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team is one of Canada's most successful national sporting teams. It is the only national women's wheelchair basketball team to have won three consecutive gold medals at the Paralympic Games in 1992, 1996 and 2000, and the only one to have won four consecutive World Wheelchair Basketball Championships, in 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006. In 2014 it won a fifth World Championship.
Canada competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016.
Laurie Anne Williams is a 2.5 point British-Irish wheelchair basketball player who participated at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo and the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris representing Great Britain.
Amy Conroy is a 4.0 point British wheelchair basketball player who represented Great Britain in the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, the 2016 Summer Paralympics in a Rio de Janeiro, co captained the team to win Gold in the under 25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Beijing and won a silver medal at the 2018 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Hamburg.
Algeria competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016.
Helen Freeman is a 4.0 point British wheelchair basketball player who represented Great Britain in five European championships, and at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London and the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.
This is a list of players that participated in the women's wheelchair basketball competition at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
This is a list of players that participated in the men's wheelchair basketball competition at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
Barbara Gross is a 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player, who played for the German national team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, winning silver. President Joachim Gauck awarded the team Germany's highest sporting honour, the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt.
Japan competed as the host nation of the 2020 Summer Paralympics in their capital Tokyo from 24 August to 5 September 2021.
Canada competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021.
