Chantal Benoit
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Chantal Benoit OC (born October 1, 1960) is a Canadian wheelchair basketball player. She is considered among the best female wheelchair basketball players of all time.
Benoit played in the Canadian woman's wheelchair basketball team since 1984, and won 3 paralympic gold medals and a bronze one, and participated in five summer Paralympics including the 1994 games at Stoke Mandeville.[1]
When she was young she had cancer, and lost her leg.
International competition
[edit | edit source]- Silver in 1986 Pan-American Games in Puerto Rico 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
- 4th place in 1988 Seoul Paralympic Games in Seoul, South Korea
- Bronze medal in 1990 Gold Cup World Championships in France 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
- Gold medal 1992 Barcelona Paralympic Games Barcelona, Spain 1st place, gold medalist(s)
- Gold medal 1994 Gold Cup World Championships England 1st place, gold medalist(s)
- Gold 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games Atlanta, USA 1st place, gold medalist(s)
- Gold 1998 Qualification of the Americas Winnipeg, Canada 1st place, gold medalist(s)
- Gold 1998 Gold Cup World Championships Sydney, Australia (+ MVP award!) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
- Gold 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games Sydney, Australia 1st place, gold medalist(s)
- Gold 2002 Gold Cup World Championships Kitakyushu, Japan 1st place, gold medalist(s)
- Bronze 2004 Athens Paralympic Games Athens, Greece 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
- Gold 2006 Gold Cup World Championships Amsterdam, the Netherlands 1st place, gold medalist(s)
- Gold 2007 Osaka Cup Osaka, Japan 1st place, gold medalist(s)
- Bronze 2007 4 Nations Tournament Sydney, Australia 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
- Silver 2007 Parapanamerican Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
- Bronze 2008 North American Cup Birmingham, Al, USA 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
- Bronze 2010 World Championships Birmingham, UK 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Other accomplishments:
- 2008 Wheelchair Basketball Canada - Female Athlete of the Year
- Canada's Flag bearer at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Wheelchairbasketball.ca
- London2012.com Archived 2012-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
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Categories:
- Canadian women's wheelchair basketball players
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Officers of the Order of Canada
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Canada
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Canada
- Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball
- Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Canada
- 20th-century Canadian sportswomen
- 21st-century Canadian sportswomen
- Canadian basketball biography stubs
- Canadian Paralympic medalist stubs
- Wheelchair basketball biography stubs