The Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team represents the
Netherlands
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in international women's
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 ...
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.
The team won the
women's tournament
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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 ...
held in Tokyo, Japan.
Paralympic Games
World Championships
See also
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Netherlands men's national wheelchair basketball team
The Netherlands men's national wheelchair basketball team is the men's wheelchair basketball side that represents the Netherlands in the major wheelchair basketball competitions.
It has thirteen European medals including a title, two world fina ...
References
External links
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Wheelchair Basketball at the 1988 Summer Paralympics (Seoul) from the International Paralympic Committee (archived)Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Wheelchair Basketball*
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Team's page on ''basketball.nl''Team History on ''basketball.nl''teamnl.org
National women's wheelchair basketball teams
Wheelchair basketball in the Netherlands
Women's basketball teams in the Netherlands
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