Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team

The Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team is one of Canada's most successful national sporting teams. It is the only national women's wheelchair basketball team to have won three consecutive gold medals at the Paralympic Games in 1992, 1996 and 2000, and the only one to have won four consecutive World Wheelchair Basketball Championships, in 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006. In 2014 it won a fifth World Championship.

History
Wheelchair basketball has been played in Canada since the 1940s. A women's tournament was held at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, and a Canadian women's team participated in the 1972 Summer Paralympics.

The women's team went on to become one of Canada's most successful national sporting teams, rivalled only by the ice hockey teams. It is the only national women's wheelchair basketball team to have won three consecutive gold medals at the Paralympic Games and the only one to have won four consecutive World Wheelchair Basketball Championships,. In 2014 it won a fifth world championship at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto.

Paralympic games
Team Canada is the only team to have won three consecutive gold medals at the Summer Paralympics, in 1992, 1996 and 2000.
 * 1972 : 5th
 * 1976 : 4th
 * 1984 : 4th
 * 1988 : 4th
 * 1992 : Gold medal Paralympics.svg Gold
 * 1996 : Gold medal Paralympics.svg Gold
 * 2000 : Gold medal Paralympics.svg Gold
 * 2004 : Bronze medal Paralympics.svg Bronze
 * 2008 : 5th
 * 2012 : 6th
 * 2016 : 5th

IWBF World Championships
The first Wheelchair Basketball World Championship for women was held in 1990, and since then Team Canada has won five times, including four consecutive wins in 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006. In 2014 it won a fifth World Championship before a home crowd in Toronto.
 * 1990 : Bronze medal Paralympics.svg Bronze
 * 1994 : Gold medal Paralympics.svg Gold
 * 1998 : Gold medal Paralympics.svg Gold
 * 2002 : Gold medal Paralympics.svg Gold
 * 2006 : Gold medal Paralympics.svg Gold
 * 2010 : Bronze medal Paralympics.svg Bronze
 * 2014 : Gold medal Paralympics.svg Gold
 * 2018 : 5th

Parapan American Games
Team Canada has won four silver medals at the Parapan Am Games:
 * 1986 : Silver medal Paralympics.svg Silver
 * 2007 : Silver medal Paralympics.svg Silver
 * 2011 : Silver medal Paralympics.svg Silver
 * 2015 : Silver medal Paralympics.svg Silver

Women's U25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships
The inaugural Women's U25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships was held from 15 to 21 July 2011 at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. The Canadian team was placed fourth, after the United States, Australia and Great Britain. The team included Cindy Ouellet, Maude Jacques, Jamey Jewells, Tamara Steeves and Abby Stubbert. At the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing, Canada placed fourth after Great Britain, Australia and China.

2012 Summer Paralympic Games


Team Canada at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London consisted of:

2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship
The gold-medal winning 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship team consisted of:


 * Coach : Bill Johnson
 * Assistant coaches : Michael Broughton, Michele Hynes
 * Physiotherapist : Sheila Forler Bauman
 * Team Doctor : Richard Goudie
 * Massage Therapist : Sophie Lavardière
 * Team Manager : Katie Miyazaki
 * Sports psychologist : Adrienne Leslie-Toogood
 * Physiologist : Mike Dahl
 * Strength coach : Kyle Turcotte