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The Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team is one of Canada's most successful national sporting teams. It is the only national women's wheelchair basketball team to have won three consecutive gold medals at the Paralympic Games in 1992, 1996 and 2000, and the only one to have won four consecutive World Wheelchair Basketball Championships, in 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006.[1] In 2014 it won a fifth World Championship.[2]
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| National federation | Wheelchair Basketball Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Bill Johnson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wheelchair basketball has been played in Canada since the 1940s.[3] A women's tournament was held at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv,[4] and a Canadian women's team participated in the 1972 Summer Paralympics.[5]
The women's team went on to become one of Canada's most successful national sporting teams, rivalled only by the ice hockey teams. It is the only national women's wheelchair basketball team to have won three consecutive gold medals at the Paralympic Games and the only one to have won four consecutive World Wheelchair Basketball Championships,.[1] In 2014 it won a fifth world championship at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto.[2]
Team Canada is the only team to have won three consecutive gold medals at the Summer Paralympics, in 1992, 1996 and 2000.[1]
The first Wheelchair Basketball World Championship for women was held in 1990, and since then Team Canada has won five times, including four consecutive wins in 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006.[6] In 2014 it won a fifth World Championship before a home crowd in Toronto.[2]
Team Canada has won one gold medal and five silver medals at the Parapan Am Games:[1]
The inaugural Women's U25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships was held from 15 to 21 July 2011 at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.[7] The Canadian team was placed fourth, after the United States, Australia and Great Britain.[8] The team included Cindy Ouellet, Maude Jacques, Jamey Jewells, Tamara Steeves and Abby Stubbert.[9] At the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing, Canada placed fourth after Great Britain, Australia and China.[10]
Team Canada at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London consisted of:[11]
The following is the Canada roster in the women's wheelchair basketball tournament of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[12]
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The gold-medal winning 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship team consisted of:[13]
| Number | Name | Date of Birth | Classification | Club |
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| 4 | Elaine Allard | 25 February 1977 | 1.5 |  Saint-Eustache |
| 5 | Janet McLachlan | 26 August 1977 | 4.5 | Vancouver |
| 6 | Arinn Young | 10 July 1996 | 4.5 | Legal |
| 7 | Cindy Ouellet | 8 December 1988 | 3.5 | Québec |
| 8 | Tamara Steeves | 23 September 1989 | 1.5 | Mississauga |
| 9 | Maude Jacques | 21 April 1992 | 2.5 | Sainte-Catherine |
| 10 | Katie Harnock | 12 August 1983 | 2.0 | Elmira |
| 11 | Darda Sales | 11 September 1982 | 4.5 | London (Ontario) |
| 12 | Tracey Ferguson | 7 September 1974 | 3.0 | Holland Landing |
| 13 | Jamey Jewells | 23 August 1989 | 1.0 | Donkin |
| 14 | Amanda Yan | 22 May 1988 | 3.0 | Burnaby |
| 15 | Melanie Hawtin | 20 July 1988 | 1.5 | Oakville |
| Alt. | Corin Metzger | 28 February 1992 | 2.5 | Elmira |
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