page_title: Tina McKenzie
section_title: Paralympics
hierarchical_section_title: Tina McKenzie / Wheelchair basketball / Paralympics
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Australian Paralympic team member Tina McKenzie at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London
context_page_description: Tina McKenzie is an Australian wheelchair basketball player. She participated in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, where she won a silver medal; in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, where she won a bronze medal; and the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won a second silver medal. After becoming an incomplete paraplegic as a result of a fall from a building in 1994, she took up wheelchair tennis and later wheelchair basketball. She joined the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders, in 1999, and played her first international match at the 2002 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Japan. She has over 100 international caps.
context_section_description: McKenzie was part of the silver medal winning  team at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, and the bronze medal winning team  at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.
  At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, she took to the court only twice. The first time was in her team's victory over Great Britain on 31 August, in which she played for 7 minutes 2 seconds. The second was in her team's quarterfinal 62–37 victory over Mexico women's national wheelchair basketball team, in which she played for 10 minutes 47 seconds. She was awarded a silver medal after her team was defeated by Germany in the final.
caption: McKenzie at the 2012 London Paralympics
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