de ROOIJ Carina

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Paralympic Games
3	Women	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
3	Women	2012	London, GBR
6	Women	2008	Beijing, CHN
7	Women	2004	Athens, GRE
World Championships
1	Women	2018	Hamburg, GER
3	Women	2014	Toronto, ON, CAN
5	Women	2010	Birmingham, GBR
5	Women	2006	Amsterdam, NED
6	Women	2002	Kitakyushu, JPN
European Championships
1	Women	2019	Rotterdam, NED
1	Women	2017	Tenerife, ESP

Athlete

Psychology - Utrecht University, Utrecht, NED

Husband Anton, daughter Amber Vajen

Dutch

Gertjan van der Linden [national], NED

Guard (sitness.nl, 2018)

Her husband Anton de Rooij represented Netherlands in wheelchair basketball at five Paralympic Games between 1992 and 2016, winning a gold [1992] and silver medal [2000] in that span. In total, he played more than 700 international matches for the Dutch national wheelchair basketball team. (gelderlander.nl, 21 Sep 2019; 15 Feb 2019)

2001 for Netherlands (rolstoelbasketbal.nl, 25 Apr 2012 )

She began playing wheelchair basketball in 2000. (rolstoelbasketbal.nl, 25 Apr 2012 )

"After finding myself in a wheelchair, I started looking around for a new type of sports activity. I first started playing basketball at the Centre for Physical Rehabilitation, that's where I was being treated after my injury. Basketball was really 'love at first play' for me!" (sunrisemedical.nl, 2016)

To win gold at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (sunrisemedical.nl, 22 Jan 2019)

"Basketball is an extremely physical sport, it demands a lot from your body. But it's great fun and builds great teamwork - it's very important to me and I couldn't live without it. I've participated in sport all my life, it's a great way to let off steam and I find it immensely enjoyable." (sunrisemedical.nl, 2016)