Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team

Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team
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. In 2014 it won a fifth World Championship.
History
Wheelchair basketball has been played in Canada since the 1940s. A women's tournament was held at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, and a Canadian women's team participated in the 1972 Summer Paralympics.
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,. In 2014 it won a fifth world championship at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto.
Paralympic games
Team Canada is the only team to have won three consecutive gold medals at the Summer Paralympics, in 1992, 1996 and 2000.
1972 : 5th
1976 : 4th
1984 : 4th
1988 : 4th
1992 : Gold
1996 : Gold
2000 : Gold
2004 : Bronze
2008 : 5th
2012 : 6th
2016 : 5th
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.
In 2014 it won a fifth World Championship before a home crowd in Toronto.
1990 : Bronze
1994 : Gold
1998 : Gold
2002 : Gold
2006 : Gold
2010 : Bronze
2014 : Gold
2018 : 5th
Other International Tournaments
Parapan American Games
Team Canada has won four silver medals at the Parapan Am Games:
1986 : Silver
2007 : Silver
2011 : Silver
2015 : Silver
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. The Canadian team was placed fourth, after the United States, Australia and Great Britain. The team included Cindy Ouellet, Maude Jacques, Jamey Jewells, Tamara Steeves and Abby Stubbert. At the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing, Canada placed fourth after Great Britain, Australia and China.
Teams
2012 Summer Paralympic Games
Team Canada at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London consisted of:
2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship
The gold-medal winning 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship team consisted of:
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
See also
Canada women's national basketball team
Notes
References
Further reading
External links
Wheelchair Basketball Canada
Canada at the Paralympics
Wheelchair Basketball, women's
Canada