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Nationality | Dutch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 29 June 1991 Den Helder, Netherlands | (age 32)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Wheelchair basketball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability | Limb deficiency | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | 4.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mariska Beijer (born 29 June 1991) is a Dutch wheelchair basketball player.[1]
Beijer competed at the Paralympic Games where she won a gold medal at the 2020 games and bronze medals at the 2012 and 2016 games.[2]
She has been part of the Netherlands team at the Wheelchair Basketball World Championships where they came 3rd at the 2014 Championship[2] and 1st at the 2018[3] and 2022 Championships.[4] She participated in the European Wheelchair Basketball Championship where the Netherlands team came first in 2013, 2017,[2] 2019[5] and 2021[6] and 2nd in 2009, 2011 and 2015. She was also the lead scorer in 2015,[2] 2017[7] and 2019.[5]
She was shortlisted for the 2019 Team Sportswoman of the Year Award.[5]