Saskia Pronk
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| Born | 6 August 1983 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,[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]
Life
[edit | edit source]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]
References
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- Saskia Pronk at the International Paralympic CommitteeLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Saskia Pronk at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)Lua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Saskia Pronk at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
- Saskia Pronk on InstagramLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
Categories:
- 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