Tina McKenzie

Tina McKenzie
2012 Australian Paralympic team portrait of McKenzie
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Born (1974-06-08) 8 June 1974 (age 50)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportWheelchair basketball
Disability class3.0
EventWomen's team
ClubDandenong Rangers
Stacks Goudkamp Bears
Medal record
Wheelchair basketball
Paralympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens Women's wheelchair basketball
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing Women's wheelchair basketball
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Women's Wheelchair basketball

Tina McKenzie (born 8 June 1974) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player. She participated in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, where she won a silver medal; in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, where she won a bronze medal; and the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won a second silver medal. After becoming an incomplete paraplegic as a result of a fall from a building in 1994, she took up wheelchair tennis and later wheelchair basketball. She joined the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders, in 1999, and played her first international match at the 2002 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Japan. She has over 100 international caps.