Jennette Jansen (born 17 April 1968) is a

Paralympian The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaire ...

from the Netherlands competing mainly in category TW4 wheelchair racing and later as a basketball player and cyclist. She competed at the

2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralym ...

, in Women's individual class 7, winning a gold medal, and in Women's road time trial H4–5 winning a bronze medal.

Career

Jansen first appeared in the Paralympics in the Athletics events of the

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Seoul games, where she won three gold medals in athletics. By the time of the Atlanta games in

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she was part of the Dutch team in wheelchair basketball that won the silver medal, she continued competing as part of the team in

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and

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

but without any further medal success. She competed at the

2016 Summer Paralympics ) , nations = 159 , athletes = 4,342 , opening = 7 September , closing = 18 September , opened_by = President Michel Temer , cauldron = Clodoaldo Silva , events = 528 in 22 sports , stadium = Maracanã , sum ...

, where she won bronze in the H5 road race.

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Jennette Jansen
– Paralympiër Living people Paralympic athletes for the Netherlands Dutch women's wheelchair basketball players Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for the Netherlands Dutch female wheelchair racers Paralympic cyclists for the Netherlands Dutch female cyclists Paralympic gold medalists for the Netherlands Paralympic silver medalists for the Netherlands Paralympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Athletes (track and field) 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 Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the European Para Championships People from Vriezenveen Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball Paralympic medalists in cycling Sportspeople from Overijssel 20th-century Dutch women 21st-century Dutch women 1968 births {{Netherlands-Paralympic-medalist-stub