The Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team represents the Netherlands in international women's wheelchair basketball competitions. The team is known as the Orange Lions. The Dutch women's team is two-time Paralympic champion (2020, 2024), two-time world champion (2018, 2023) and ten-time European champion.
| IWBF zone | Europe | ||
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| National federation | NBB | ||
| Coach | Joost van Rangelrooij | ||
| Nickname | Orange Lions | ||
| Paralympic Games | |||
| Appearances | 10 | ||
| Medals |  :2  :1  :4 | ||
| World Championships | |||
| Appearances | 9 | ||
| Medals |  :2  :0  :1 | ||
| European Championship | |||
| Appearances | 19 | ||
| Medals | :10 :8 :1 | ||
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The team won the women's tournament at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan.[1][2]
Paralympic Games
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World Championships
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See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ Pavitt, Michael (4 September 2021). "The Netherlands win maiden women's wheelchair basketball gold at Tokyo 2020". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- ↑ "Wheelchair Basketball Results Book" (PDF). 2020 Summer Paralympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-09-06. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
External links
edit- "Basketball - Women's Paralympic Games [2012- ]". the-sports.org.
- "Basketball - Women's Wheelchair World Championships [2010 - ]". the-sports.org.
- "Basketball - Women's Wheelchair European Championships [2015 - ]". the-sports.org.
- Wheelchair Basketball at the 1988 Summer Paralympics (Seoul) from the International Paralympic Committee (archived)
- Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Wheelchair Basketball
- "Wheelchair Basketball Results Book" (PDF). 2020 Summer Paralympics. 5 September 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-09-06.
- "World Championships Past Results". International Wheelchair Basketball Federation.
- Team's page on basketball.nl
- Team History on basketball.nl
- teamnl.org