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| Born | (1983-08-06) 6 August 1983 (age 41) 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, and the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
She also became world champion in 2018 and European champion in 2017 and 2019.
Life
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.
References
- ^ "Saskia Pronk - Wheelchair Basketball - Paralympic Athlete Profile". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
- ^ "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
- Saskia Pronk at the International Paralympic Committee
- Saskia Pronk at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
- Saskia Pronk on Instagram
- 1983 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
- 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
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- 21st-century Dutch sportswomen