Carina de Rooij-Versloot
Dutch wheelchair basketball player
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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]
Carina de Rooij in 2014 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| National team | Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team |
| Born | 10 May 1980 Zaltbommel, Netherlands[1] |
| Sport | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sport | Women's Wheelchair Basketball |
| Disability | paraplegia |
| 3.0 | |
Medal record | |
Early life
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.
Career
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]