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Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team

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.

Netherlands
IWBF zoneEurope
National federationNBB
CoachGertjan van der Linden
Nickname(s)Orange Lions
Paralympic Games
Appearances10
Medals:1 :1 :4
World Championships
Appearances8
Medals:2 :0 :1
European Championship
Appearances17
Medals:8 :8 :1
Medal record
Paralympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1988 Seoul
Bronze medal – third place 1992 Barcelona
Silver medal – second place 1996 Atlanta
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Toronto
Gold medal – first place 2018 Hamburg
Gold medal – first place 2022 Dubai
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1987 Lorient
Gold medal – first place 1989 Charleville-Mézières
Silver medal – second place 1991 El Ferrol
Gold medal – first place 1993 Berlin
Gold medal – first place 1995 Delden
Gold medal – first place 1997 Madrid
Silver medal – second place 1999 Roermond
Silver medal – second place 2003 Hamburg
Silver medal – second place 2005 Villeneuve-d'Ascq
Silver medal – second place 2007 Wetzlar
Silver medal – second place 2009 Stoke Mandeville
Silver medal – second place 2011 Nazareth
Gold medal – first place 2013 Frankfurt
Silver medal – second place 2015 Worcester
Gold medal – first place 2017 Adeje
Gold medal – first place 2019 Rotterdam
Gold medal – first place 2021 Madrid
Gold medal – first place 2023 Rotterdam

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

Paralympic Games edit

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 Qualified
Total 10/14 55 32 23

World Championships edit

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 edit

References edit

  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.

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