Personal information | |
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Nationality | Australia |
Born | 8 June 1974 |
Sport | |
Country | Australia |
Sport | Wheelchair basketball |
Disability class | 3.0 |
Event | Women's team |
Club | Dandenong Rangers Stacks Goudkamp Bears |
Medal record |
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.