Carina de Rooij-Versloot
 Carina de Rooij in 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| National team | Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 May 1980 Zaltbommel, Netherlands[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Women's Wheelchair Basketball | |||||||||||||||||
| Disability | paraplegia | |||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | 3.0 | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Carina de Rooij-Versloot (born 10 May 1980) is a Dutch wheelchair basketball player. She is a member of the Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team. She competed at four Paralympic Games and won two Paralympic bronze medal,[2] and a gold medal.[3]
Biigraphy
[edit]Versloot broke her back in 1999 during gymnastics training at the Hellas gymnastics club in Tiel. As a result, she had incomplete paraplegia. During her rehabilitation at the Rehabilitation Center "De Hoogsstraat" in Utrecht, she came into contact with wheelchair basketball.
After competing at the 2004 Summer Paralympics and 2008 Summer Paralympics she won the bronze medal at the 2012 Paralympics and also four years later at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[4][5] She also competed at other international tournaments, including the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship and 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship.
She is a member of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation's Athlete Steering Committee.[6][7] In daily life she is a child and youth psychologist.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "DE ROOIJ Carina". Paris 2024 Paralympics. Retrieved 8 September 2024. (alternate link)
- ^ "Carina de Rooij". teamnl.org. Archived from the original on 22 July 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
- ^ "de ROOIJ Carina". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
- ^ "Wheelchair Basketball - Netherlands - De Rooij". www.paralympic.org. Archived from the original on 22 July 2021. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
- ^ "Carina de Rooij - Wheelchair Basketball | Paralympic Athlete Profile". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 22 July 2021. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
- ^ "Netherlands' De Rooij looking to share her experience and insight". IWBF - International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. 16 May 2020. Archived from the original on 19 July 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
- ^ "Rolstoelbasketbalinternational Carina de Rooij treedt namens Europa toe tot de atletencommissie van de IBWF". Basketball.nl. Archived from the original on 22 July 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
- ^ "Carina de Rooij - Wheelchair Basketball | Sunrise Medical". Archived from the original on 22 July 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
External links
[edit]- Gold medalist Ilse Arts and Carina de Rooij of Team Netherlands News Photo - Getty Images
- Carina de Rooij at the International Paralympic Committee
- Carina de Rooij at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Dutch women's wheelchair basketball players
- Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for the Netherlands
- Paralympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
- Paralympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
- Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- 20th-century Dutch women
- 21st-century Dutch women
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- People from Zaltbommel