Saskia Pronk
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| Born | 6 August 1983 Den Helder, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair basketball | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | forward | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability | spinal cord injury | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | 1.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Saskia Pronk (born 6 August 1983) is a Dutch wheelchair basketball player (1.0 disability class) and a member of the Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team. She plays as a forward. With the national team she won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics,[1] and the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[1]
She also became world champion in 2018 and European champion in 2017 and 2019.[2]
Life[edit]
Pronk was born in Den Helder on 6 August 1983. Due to a failed surgery in 2005 she has a paraplegia. She started playing with wheelchair basketball in 2007 after being invited by the coach of club JBC in Julianadorp. She made her debut for the Dutch national team in 2010.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Saskia Pronk - Wheelchair Basketball - Paralympic Athlete Profile". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
- ^ a b "Wheelchair Basketball - PRONK Saskia". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 6 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
External links[edit]
- Saskia Pronk at the International Paralympic Committee
- Saskia Pronk at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
- Saskia Pronk on Instagram
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- 1983 births
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- 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
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Sportspeople from Den Helder
- 21st-century Dutch women
- European basketball biography stubs
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