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Wheelchair Basketball At The 2020 Summer Paralympics – Women's Tournament
The 2020 Summer Paralympics women's tournament in Tokyo began on 25 August and ended on the 4 September 2021. The matches were played at the Musashino Forest Sport Plaza and the Ariake Arena. This was the fourteenth edition of the tournament since the tournament debut at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv. Ten teams were separated into two groups of five with the top four qualifying through to the knockout stage of the competition. The knockout stage started from the quarter-finals and ended with the gold medal match, aside from the classification matches. Competition schedule Qualification Ten teams qualified through the qualifying stage with the host nation in Japan. The other nine spots were spread out across four different events. Four spots was taken up by European teams, two by the Americas and Asia/Pacific and one in Africa. Squads Preliminary round Group A ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariake Arena
The is a multi-sport venue in Ariake, Tokyo, Ariake, Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. It served as the Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics, volleyball venue for the 2020 Summer Olympics and the Wheelchair basketball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, wheelchair basketball knockout stage at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. This was the replacement of the Differ Ariake which was closed and demolished in June 2018. History The Ariake Arena was one of the six permanent facilities designed to be built in the district of Ariake in order to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Its construction began in January 2017 and was completed in December 2019. The total cost of the project was around 35 billion yen (about US$320 million) and it has the capacity 12,000 spectators, which can be expanded to a max capacity of 15,000 with temporary seating. After the Olympic and Paralympic Games, a consortium let by Dentsu was granted an exclusive right to operate the facility until March 2046. Under a Concessio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Thompson
Madeleine Thompson (born 29 March 1995) is a 4 point British wheelchair basketball player. In 2008, at the age of thirteen, she became the youngest ever player to represent Great Britain in wheelchair basketball. She was part of the British team at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto, and the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg. Biography Madeleine Thompson was born in Chesterfield on 29 March 1995. She was educated at Lady Manners School. She took up wheelchair basketball at the age of ten after a meeting with the British player Callum Gordon. This led to an invitation to attend a training session for the Sheffield Steelers. She was graded a 4 point player. When she was thirteen, she became the youngest wheelchair basketball player ever to represent Great Britain, as part of the team at the Under 22 European Championships at Adana, Turkey, in 2008. She was selected a member of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie Schneider
Natalie Mae Schneider (born February 11, 1983) is an American wheelchair basketball player and member of the United States women's national wheelchair basketball team. Career She won her first gold medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and got the second one at the North American Cup same year. In 2010, she won gold medal at IWBF World Championship. She represented the United States at the 2022 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships and won a bronze medal. In November 2023 she competed at the 2023 Parapan American Games in the wheelchair basketball tournament and won a gold medal. As a result, the team earned an automatic bid to the 2024 Summer Paralympics The 2024 Summer Paralympics (), also known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games (), and branded as Paris 2024, were the 17th Summer Paralympic Games, an international Multi-sport event, multi-sport parasports event governed by the International P .... On March 30, 2024, she was named to Team USA's roster to compete at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Hollermann
Rose Marie Hollermann (born December 25, 1995) is an American 3.5 point wheelchair basketball player and member of the United States women's national wheelchair basketball team. She who won gold at the 2011, and 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, the 2011, 2015 and 2023 Parapan American Games, and the 2016 Summer Paralympics. She also won bronze at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and the 2022 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships. Early life Rose Hollermann was born in Mankato, Minnesota, on December 25, 1995, the daughter of John and Michelle Hollermann. She had three brothers: Shane, Ethan, and Seth. On August 10, 2001, Rose, her mother and three brothers were in a motor vehicle accident outside their home in Elysian, Minnesota. Her two older brothers Ethan and Shane were killed. She had bruising to her spinal cord around the T11 and T12 thoracic vertebrae, leaving her partly paralyzed from the waist down. She can stand, and walk a little, but spend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jitske Visser
Jitske Visser (born 29 October 1992) is a Dutch wheelchair basketball player. Career Visser has represented the Netherlands at five Summer Paralympic Games, winning gold medals in wheelchair basketball in 2020 and 2024 and bronze medals in 2012 and 2016. In 2021, Visser was elected chairperson of the International Paralympic Committee The International Paralympic Committee (IPC; ) is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement. The IPC organizes the Paralympic Games and functions as the international federation for nin ...'s athlete council. References External links * 1992 births Living people Dutch women's wheelchair basketball players Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for the Netherlands Wheelchair basketball players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Cup which was hosted in Osaka, Japan. She also won a silver medal at Canada Games in her home town Ontario the same year. In 2013, she received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal which was given to her by Minister of State Bal Gosal. In 2016 she was chosen to represent Canada at the 2016 Summer Paralympics The 2016 Summer Paralympics (), the 15th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for disabled sports, athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, f .... She was also ranked as top athlete with a disability by the Mississauga Sports Council in 2012. References External links Tamara Steevesat Wheelchair Basketball Canada * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Munro-Cook
Georgia Munro-Cook is an Australian 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player. She represented Australia at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg, the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, and the 2022 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships in Dubai. Biography Munro-Cook was born on 17 May 1994, the daughter of Meg Munro and Murray Cook; her father is one of the original members of the children's band The Wiggles. As a child, she appeared in seven of The Wiggles' videos, including '' Big Red Car'', ''Wake Up Jeff!'', ''Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas'', '' It's a Wiggly Wiggly World'', '' Hoop Dee Doo: It's a Wiggly Party'' and '' Yule Be Wiggling''. She attended Newtown High School of the Performing Arts, earning high marks in English, Mathematics, Science, Australian History and Australian Geography. She attended the University of Sydney, where she wrote her PhD thesis on the history of the Women's National Basketball Association. , she works as a postgraduate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arinn Young
Arinn Young (born July 10, 1996) is a Canadian 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player who won a gold medal at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto. Biography Arinn Young was born in St. Albert, Alberta, on July 10, 1996. She is nicknamed "Juice" due to her practice of drinking juice boxes during a game. She started playing basketball when she was five years old, and went on to win 15 MVP awards and two city championships. She also played other sports, including lacrosse and horse riding, and was placed third in shot-put at the Alberta Track and Field Provincial Championship. An injury while playing lacrosse when she was 14 saw her right knee swell up. It apparently returned to normal but "popped" a number of times over the following year. An MRI revealed an anterior cruciate ligament injury. Her meniscus was damaged and her femur, patella and fibula were bone on bone, which causes accelerated wear on the bones. A series of surgical procedures foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cindy Ouellet
Cindy Ouellet (born December 8, 1988) is a Canadian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player. Ouellet is part of the LGBTQ+ community. Early life Cindy Ouellet was born on December 8, 1988, in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada. At age 12, she was diagnosed with bone cancer which quickly ended her dream of becoming a soccer player and skier. Career Ouellet took up wheelchair basketball in 2005. She is classified as a 3.5 point player. She won a gold medal in 2007 at Canada Games for Quebec, and joined the women's senior team later that year. She made her Paralympic debut at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. At the 2010 World Championships in Birmingham she won a bronze one following by a silver medal at the 2011 Parapan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. In 2011, Ouellet joined Canada's first-ever Women's U25 National Team, which she led at the inaugural Women's U25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in St. Catharines, Ontario, in July 2011. Ouellet was named to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurie Williams (wheelchair Basketball)
Laurie Anne Williams (born 4 February 1992) is a 2.5 point British-Irish wheelchair basketball player who participated at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo and the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris representing Great Britain. Early life and education Williams was born on 4 February 1992 at Wythenshawe Hospital and grew up in Altrincham. At the age of eighteen months, an undiagnosed viral infection resulted in her developing motor neuropathy in her trunk and legs. Williams starred as Gabby alongside Ade Adepitan in the 2007 CBBC series, Desperados about a children's wheelchair basketball team. She attended Altrincham Grammar School for Girls and later completed further education at Loreto College in Manchester. Following the completion of her A-Levels, Williams enrolled at Loughborough University and proceeded to graduate with a first class honours Bachelor of Science degree in social psy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mareike Miller
Mareike Miller (; born 3 August 1990) is a 4.5 point player, 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player, who played for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in the United States. She also plays for the German national team, with which she won two European titles, was runner-up at 2010 and 2014 World Championships, won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London and won a silver medal at the Rio 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. President Joachim Gauck awarded the team Germany's highest sporting honour, the ''Silbernes Lorbeerblatt'' (Silver Laurel Leaf), twice (2012 and 2016). Miller is part of the LGBTQ+ community. Biography Mareike Miller was born on 3 August 1990, the daughter of Karl-Heinz and Kristin. She has a brother, Nils. She is nicknamed "MA". Miller began playing basketball at the age of seven, and made her debut with a women's senior club team in Germany when she was 14. In that first game, she suffered a anterior cruciate ligament injury, torn anterior c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amber Merritt
Amber Merritt (born 17 February 1993) is a 4.5 point player, 4.5-point wheelchair basketball player who plays forward (basketball), forward. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won a silver medal and at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. Born in England, Merritt moved to Australia when she was ten years old. She was originally a swimmer, but was recruited into basketball by the Paralympic Hall of Fame coach Frank Ponta in 2007. She started playing top-level club wheelchair basketball in Australia for the Perth Western Stars in the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League (WNWBL) in 2008. In 2013, she captained the team, and it to its first WNWBL championship. She was the league's top scorer, and the Most Valuable Player 4 pointer in its All Star Five, in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Merritt made her debut with the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders, in 2009. She has played for the Gliders in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
