Nationality: | Dutch |
Birth Date: | 13 August 1994 |
Birth Place: | Utrecht, Netherlands |
Sport: | Wheelchair basketball |
Club: | SC Antilope Utrecht |
Country: | Netherlands |
Disability Class: | 2.5 |
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Anouk Taggenbrock (born 13 August 1994) 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.[1]
When she was 13 years old she received a spinal cord infection that resulted in a spinal cord injury. She studied at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Business Administration, Pharmacy). After playing wheelchair tennis at elite level, she switched to wheelchair basketball after a Paralympic talent day.