Cher Korver

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Cher Korver
Personal information
NationalityDutch
Born (1976-08-11) 11 August 1976 (age 45)
Amersfoort, Netherlands
Sport
CountryNetherlands
SportWheelchair basketball
Disabilityimpaired muscle power
Disability class2.5

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[]

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 . 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[]

  1. ^ "Cher Korver - Wheelchair Basketball - Paralympic Athlete Profile". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Wheelchair Basketball - KORVER Cher - Tokyo 2020 Paralympics". Tokyo2020.org. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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