John Boie (born February 11, 1991) is an American

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 ...

player and a member of the

United States men's national wheelchair basketball team The United States men's national wheelchair basketball team began in 1955 when the Pam Am Jets brought wheelchair basketball to Europe at the International Stoke Mandville Games, albeit in the form of netball. Shortly following the Pan Am Jets' do ...

. He represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Career

Boie represented the United States in

at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and won a gold medal. He represented the United States at the

Wheelchair Basketball World Championship The IWBF World Wheelchair Basketball Championship is an international wheelchair basketball competition contested by the men's and the women's national teams of the members of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation ( IWBF), the sport' ...

, winning a silver medal in

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and a gold medal in

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References

1991 births Living people American men's wheelchair basketball players Medalists at the 2019 Parapan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Parapan American Games Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for the United States Wheelchair basketball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball Paralympic gold medalists for the United States Basketball players from Wisconsin Sportspeople from Janesville, Wisconsin 21st-century American people {{US-Paralympic-medalist-stub