Cher Korver
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| Born | 11 August 1976 Amersfoort, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair basketball | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability | impaired muscle power | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | 2.5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Cher Korver (born 11 August 1976) is a Dutch wheelchair basketball player (2.5 disability class) and a member of the Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team. With the national team she competed at 6 consecutive Summer Paralympics between 2000 and 2020. She won with the team the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, and the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and 2016 Summer Paralympics.[1] She became world champion in 2018 and European champion in 2017 and 2019.[2]
Life
[edit]Korver was born in Amersfoort on 11 August 1976. She has impaired muscle power in her legs since she is 19 years old. started with playing wheelchair basketball in 1997. She made her debut for the national team in 1998 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship. She competed at the 2008 Paralympic World Cup.
She was awarded the Rob Verheuvel Award for her contribution to wheelchair basketball in 2014. She lives in Nijkerk.
References
[edit]- ^ "Cher Korver - Wheelchair Basketball - Paralympic Athlete Profile". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
- ^ "Wheelchair Basketball - KORVER Cher". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 6 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
External links
[edit]- Cher Korver, Holland News Photo - Getty Images
- Cher Korver at the International Paralympic Committee
- Chèr Korver at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
- 1976 births
- Living people
- Dutch women's wheelchair basketball players
- Sportspeople from Amersfoort
- Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for the Netherlands
- Paralympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
- Paralympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
- Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- 21st-century Dutch women
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics