The Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team represents the Netherlands in international women's wheelchair basketball competitions. The team is known as the Orange Lions. The Dutch women's team is two-time Paralympic champion (2020, 2024), two-time world champion (2018, 2023) and ten-time European champion.
The team won the women's tournament at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
Paralympic Games Year 1968 Tel Aviv Did not qualify 1972 Heidelberg 1976 Toronto 1980 Arnhem 1984 Stoke Mandeville ? 1988 Seoul 3rd 6 4 2 1992 Barcelona 3rd 5 3 2 1996 Atlanta 2nd 5 3 2 2000 Sydney 4th 5 2 3 2004 Athens 7th 6 1 5 2008 Beijing 6th 7 3 4 2012 London 3rd 7 5 2 2016 Rio de Janeiro 3rd 7 5 2 2020 Tokyo 1st 7 6 1 2024 Paris 1st 6 6 0 Total 11/15 61 38 23
World Championships Year 1990 Saint-Étienne 4th 1994 Stoke Mandeville 4th 1998 Sydney 6th 2002 Kitakyushu 6th 2006 Amsterdam 5th 2010 Birmingham 5th 7 4 3 2014 Toronto 3rd 8 7 1 2018 Hamburg 1st 8 8 0 2022 Dubai 1st 8 8 0 2026 Ottawa 3rd 8 6 2Total10/10
See also Netherlands men's national wheelchair basketball team
References
External links
Wheelchair Basketball at the 1988 Summer Paralympics (Seoul) from the International Paralympic Committee (archived) Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Wheelchair Basketball
Team's page on basketball.nl Team History on basketball.nl teamnl.org