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Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team
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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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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]
In 2024 Michèle Sung, formerly coach of the University of Manitoba women's basketball team and previously an assistant coach of Wheelchair Basketball Canada's women's team, was appointed head coach of the Canadian national women's wheelchair basketball team.[6]
Paralympic games
Team Canada is the only team to have won three consecutive gold medals at the Summer Paralympics, in 1992, 1996 and 2000.[1]
IWBF World Championships
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.[7] In 2014 it won a fifth World Championship before a home crowd in Toronto.[2]
Other International Tournaments
Parapan American Games
Team Canada has won one gold medal and five silver medals at the Parapan Am Games:[1]
Women's U25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships
The inaugural Women's U25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships was held from 15 to 21 July 2011 at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.[8] The Canadian team was placed fourth, after the United States, Australia and Great Britain.[9] The team included Cindy Ouellet, Maude Jacques, Jamey Jewells, Tamara Steeves and Abby Stubbert.[10] At the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing, Canada placed fourth after Great Britain, Australia and China.[11] At the 2023 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Bangkok, Canada placed sixth. [12]
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2012 Summer Paralympic Games
Team Canada at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London consisted of:[13]
The following is the Canada roster in the women's wheelchair basketball tournament of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[14]
2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship
The gold-medal winning 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship team consisted of:[15]
Elaine Allard
Janet McLachlan
Arinn Young
Cindy Ouellet
Tamara Steeves
Maude Jacques
Katie Harnock
Darda Sales
Tracey Ferguson
Jamie Jewells
Amanda Yan
Melanie Hawtin
- Coach : Bill Johnson
- Assistant coaches : Michael Broughton, Michele Hynes
- Physiotherapist : Sheila Forler Bauman
- Team Doctor : Richard Goudie
- Massage Therapist : Sophie Lavardière
- Team Manager : Katie Miyazaki
- Sports psychologist : Adrienne Leslie-Toogood
- Physiologist : Mike Dahl
- Strength coach : Kyle Turcotte
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