Chantal Benoit (born October 1, 1960) is a Canadian wheelchair basketball player. She is considered among the best female wheelchair basketball players of all time. Benoit played in the Canadian woman's wheelchair basketball team since 1984, and won 3 paralympic gold medals and a bronze one, and participated in five summer Paralympics including the 1994 games at Stoke Mandeville. When she was young she had cancer, and lost her leg.

International competition

* Silver in 1986 Pan-American Games in Puerto Rico * 4th place in 1988 Seoul Paralympic Games in Seoul, South Korea * Bronze medal in 1990 Gold Cup World Championships in France * Gold medal 1992 Barcelona Paralympic Games Barcelona, Spain * Gold medal 1994 Gold Cup World Championships England * Gold 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games Atlanta, USA * Gold 1998 Qualification of the Americas Winnipeg, Canada * Gold 1998 Gold Cup World Championships Sydney, Australia (+ MVP award!) * Gold 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games Sydney, Australia * Gold 2002 Gold Cup World Championships Kitakyushu, Japan * Bronze 2004 Athens Paralympic Games Athens, Greece * Gold 2006 Gold Cup World Championships Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Gold 2007 Osaka Cup Osaka, Japan * Bronze 2007 4 Nations Tournament Sydney, Australia * Silver 2007 Parapanamerican Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * Bronze 2008 North American Cup Birmingham, Al, USA * Bronze 2010 World Championships Birmingham, UK Other accomplishments: * 2008 Wheelchair Basketball Canada - Female Athlete of the Year * Canada's

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2004 Summer Paralympics ) , nations = 136 , athletes = 3,806 , events = 519 in 19 sports , opening = 17 September , closing = 28 September , opened_by = President Costis Stephanopoulos , cauldron = Georgios Toptsis , stadium = Olympi ...

References

External links

Wheelchairbasketball.ca

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Canadian women's wheelchair basketball players 1960 births Living people Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Officers of the Order of Canada Wheelchair basketball players at the 1992 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 1988 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Canada Paralympic bronze medalists for Canada Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Canada {{Canada-basketball-bio-stub