Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team explained

Type:Women's Wheelchair
Country:Netherlands
Nickname:Orange Lions
Iwbf Zone:Europe
National Fed:NBB
Zone Championship:European Championship
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Paraly Appearances:10
Paraly Medals:

1 :1 :4

Wc Appearances:8
Wc Medals:

2 :0 :1

Zone Appearances:17
Zone Medals:

8 :8 :1

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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 (2018, 2023) and nine-time European champion.

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

Paralympic Games

Year
1968 Tel AvivDid not qualify
1972 Heidelberg
1976 Toronto
1980 Arnhem
1984 Stoke Mandeville?
1988 Seoul3rd 6 4 2
1992 Barcelona3rd 5 3 2
1996 Atlanta2nd 5 3 2
2000 Sydney4th 5 2 3
2004 Athens7th 6 1 5
2008 Beijing6th 7 3 4
2012 London3rd 7 5 2
2016 Rio de Janeiro3rd 7 5 2
2020 Tokyo1st 7 6 1
2024 ParisQualified
Total10/14 55 32 23

World Championships

Year
1990 Saint-Étienne4th
1994 Stoke Mandeville4th
1998 Sydney6th
2002 Kitakyushu6th
2006 Amsterdam5th
2010 Birmingham5th 7 4 3
2014 Toronto3rd 8 7 1
2018 Hamburg1st 8 8 0
2022 Dubai1st 8 8 0
Total9/9

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Notes and References

  1. News: Pavitt. Michael. 4 September 2021. The Netherlands win maiden women's wheelchair basketball gold at Tokyo 2020. InsideTheGames.biz. 8 January 2022.
  2. Web site: Wheelchair Basketball Results Book. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20210906061456/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/resPG2020-/pdf/PG2020-/WBK/PG2020-_WBK_B99_WBK-------------------------------.pdf. 2021-09-06. 8 January 2022. 2020 Summer Paralympics.