Chantal Benoit

Chantal Benoit OC (born October 1, 1960) is a Canadian wheelchair basketball player. She is considered among the best female wheelchair basketball players of all time.

Benoit played in the Canadian woman's wheelchair basketball team since 1984, and won 3 paralympic gold medals and a bronze one, and participated in five summer Paralympics including the 1994 games at Stoke Mandeville.[1]

When she was young she had cancer, and lost her leg.

  1. ^ Thiboutot, Armand (1996). The 50th Anniversary of Wheelchair Basketball. p. 86. ISBN 3830954417. Retrieved 27 June 2014.