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Born | Den Helder, Netherlands | 6 August 1983|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
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]
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Born | Den Helder, Netherlands | 6 August 1983|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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]
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]