Birth Date: | 6 August 1983 |
Birth Place: | Den Helder, Netherlands |
Sport: | Wheelchair basketball |
Position: | forward |
Country: | Netherlands |
Disability: | spinal cord injury |
Disability Class: | 1.0 |
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Saskia Pronk (born 6 August 1983) is a Dutch wheelchair basketball player (1.0 disability class) 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,[1] and the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
She also became world champion in 2018 and European champion in 2017 and 2019.[2]
Pronk was born in Den Helder on 6 August 1983. Due to a failed surgery in 2005 she has a paraplegia. She started playing with wheelchair basketball in 2007 after being invited by the coach of club JBC in Julianadorp. She made her debut for the Dutch national team in 2010.