Julia van der Sprong
Julia van der Sprong (born 27 September 1999) is a Dutch wheelchair basketball player. She is a member of the Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team,[1] and plays for SC DeVeDo in Ermelo. She won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [2]
She also became world champion in 2018 and European champion in 2019. [3]
She plays in the Dutch Eredivisie national league, with her club SC DeVeDo.
Life[change | change source]
Van der Sprong was born in 1999 in Gouda. Before her impairment she did hockey, roller skating and speed skating. After a field hockey training she lost feeling in her left leg and foot. She had an inflammation that damaged nerves in her spinal cord and resulted in her having to use a wheelchair. She tried playing wheelchair tennis and wheelchair racing and switched to wheelchair basketball in 2016 in Gouda.
She studied business administration at the Radboud University in Nijmegen.[3]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ NOC*NSF. "Julia van der Sprong". teamnl.org (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- ↑ "Wheelchair Basketball van der SPRONG Julia - Tokyo 2020 Paralympics". web.archive.org. 2021-08-26. Archived from the original on 2021-08-26. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Summer interview (2): Julia van der Sprong is still waiting to go to Tokyo". Vox magazine (in Dutch). 2020-07-14. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
Other websites[change | change source]
- Topsporter Julia: ‘Op school hoorde ik: die rollator is voor een bejaarde’ | Foto | AD.nl
- Julia van der Sprong of The Netherlands during the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics... News Photo - Ilse Schaffers