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

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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

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, in 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006. In 2014 it won a fifth World Championship.

History

Wheelchair basketball Wheelchair basketball is basketball played by people with varying physical disabilities that disqualify them from playing a non-disabled sport. These include spina bifida, birth defects, cerebral palsy, paralysis due to accident, amputations (of ...

has been played in Canada since the 1940s. A women's tournament was held at the

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, and a Canadian women's team participated in the

1972 Summer Paralympics The 1972 Summer Paralympics (german: Paralympische Sommerspiele 1972), the fourth edition of the Paralympic Games, were held in Heidelberg, West Germany, from 2 to 11 August 1972. The games ended 15 days before the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Mu ...

. The women's team went on to become one of Canada's most successful national sporting teams, rivalled only by the

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teams. It is the only national women's wheelchair basketball team to have won three consecutive gold medals at the Paralympic Games and the only one to have won four consecutive

,. In 2014 it won a fifth world championship at the

2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship Separate men's and women's Wheelchair Basketball World Championship tournaments were held in 2014. The women's tournament was held at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto, Canada between 20 and 28 June 2014. It was the largest women's ...

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Paralympic games

Team Canada is the only team to have won three consecutive gold medals at the Summer Paralympics, in 1992, 1996 and 2000. *

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: 5th *

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: 4th *

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

: 4th *

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: 4th * 1992 : Gold medal Paralympics

Gold * 1996 : Gold medal Paralympics

Gold *

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Gold * 2004 : Bronze medal Paralympics

Bronze *

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: 5th *

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: 5th

IWBF World Championships

The first

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for women was held in 1990, and since then Team Canada has won five times, including four consecutive wins in 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006. In 2014 it won a fifth World Championship before a home crowd in

. * 1990 : Bronze medal Paralympics

Bronze * 1994 : Gold medal Paralympics

Gold * 1998 : Gold medal Paralympics

Gold * 2002 : Gold medal Paralympics

Gold * 2006 : Gold medal Paralympics

Gold * 2010 : Bronze medal Paralympics

Bronze *

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Gold *

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: 5th

Other International Tournaments

Parapan American Games

Team Canada has won four silver medals at the Parapan Am Games: * 1986 : Silver medal Paralympics

Silver * 2007 : Silver medal Paralympics

Silver * 2011 : Silver medal Paralympics

Silver * 2015 : Silver medal Paralympics

Silver

Women's U25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships

The inaugural Women's U25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships was held from 15 to 21 July 2011 at

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in St. Catharines, Ontario. The Canadian team was placed fourth, after the United States, Australia and Great Britain. The team included Cindy Ouellet, Maude Jacques,

Jamey Jewells Jamey Jewells (born August 23, 1989) is Canadian 1.0 point wheelchair basketball player, who has played for Team Canada and the Trier Dolphins in Germany. She was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and raised in Donkin, Nova Scotia. Jewells began p ...

Tamara Steeves Tamara Steeves (born September 23, 1989) is a Canadian 1.5 point wheelchair basketball player from Etobicoke, Ontario who won a gold medal in the 2009 Artland Open which was hosted in Quakenbruck, Germany and in 2011 bronze medal at Osaka Cu ...

and

Abby Stubbert Abby Stubbert (born June 4, 1988) is a Canadian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player from Halifax, Nova Scotia who won a gold medal in the 2009 Artland Open which was hosted in Quakenbruck, Germany and a 2011 silver medal at Osaka Cup whic ...

. At the

2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship The 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship was held at the China Disability Sports Training Centre in Beijing from 30 June to 6 July 2015. Six nations competed: Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Great Britain and Japan. The e ...

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, Canada placed fourth after Great Britain, Australia and China.

Teams

2012 Summer Paralympic Games

Team Canada at the

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in London consisted of:

2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship

The gold-medal winning

team consisted of: No 4 - Elaine Allard.jpg, Elaine Allard No 5 - Janet McLachlan.jpg, Janet McLachlan No 6 - Arinn Young.jpg, Arinn Young No 7 - Cindy Ouellet.jpg, Cindy Ouellet No 8 - Tamara Steeves.jpg, Tamara Steeves No 9 - Maude Jacques.jpg, Maude Jacques No 10 - Katie Harnock.jpg, Katie Harnock No 11 - Darda Sales.jpg, Darda Sales No 12 - Tracey Ferguson.jpg, Tracey Ferguson No 13 - Jamie Jewells.jpg, Jamie Jewells No 14 - Amanda Yan.jpg, Amanda Yan No 15 - Melanie Hawtin.jpg, Melanie Hawtin * Coach : Bill Johnson * Assistant coaches : Michael Broughton, Michele Hynes * Physiotherapist : Sheila Forler Bauman * Team Doctor : Richard Goudie * Massage Therapist : Sophie Lavardière * Team Manager : Katie Miyazaki * Sports psychologist : Adrienne Leslie-Toogood * Physiologist : Mike Dahl * Strength coach : Kyle Turcotte

Notes

References

External links

Wheelchair Basketball Canada
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