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

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.
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.

Parapan American Games

Team Canada has won four silver medals at the Parapan Am Games:
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:


NumberNameDate of BirthClassificationClub
4Elaine Allard25 February 19771.5 Saint-Eustache
5Janet McLachlan26 August 19774.5 Vancouver
6Arinn Young10 July 19964.5 Legal
7Cindy Ouellet8 December 19883.5 Québec
8Tamara Steeves23 September 19891.5 Mississauga
9Maude Jacques21 April 19922.5 Sainte-Catherine
10Katie Harnock12 August 19832.0 Elmira
11Darda Sales11 September 19824.5 London
12Tracey Ferguson7 September 19743.0 Holland Landing
13Jamey Jewells23 August 19891.0 Donkin
14Amanda Yan22 May 19883.0 Burnaby
15Melanie Hawtin20 July 19881.5 Oakville
Alt.Corin Metzger28 February 19922.5 Elmira