Carina de Rooij-Versloot

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,[1] and a gold medal.[2]

In this Dutch name, the surname is de Rooij-Versloot, not Rooij-Versloot.
Carina de Rooij
Personal information
National teamNetherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team
Born (1980-05-10) 10 May 1980
Height168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight54 kg (119 lb)
Sport
CountryNetherlands
SportWomen's Wheelchair Basketball
Disabilityparaplegia
Disability class3.0

Biigraphy

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.[3][4] 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.[5][6] In daily life she is a child and youth psychologist.[7]

References
  1. "Carina de Rooij". teamnl.org.
  2. "Wheelchair Basketball de ROOIJ Carina - Tokyo 2020 Paralympics". .. Archived from the original on 2021-08-26. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  3. "Wheelchair Basketball - Netherlands - De Rooij". www.paralympic.org. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  4. "Carina de Rooij - Wheelchair Basketball | Paralympic Athlete Profile". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  5. "Netherlands' De Rooij looking to share her experience and insight". IWBF - International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. 2020-05-16. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  6. "Rolstoelbasketbalinternational Carina de Rooij treedt namens Europa toe tot de atletencommissie van de IBWF". Basketball.nl.
  7. "Carina de Rooij - Wheelchair Basketball | Sunrise Medical".


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