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The 2012 Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders, was a wheelchair basketball team that played in the 2012 Summer Paralympics. The team of twelve included nine Paralympic veterans with fifteen Paralympic Games between them: Bridie Kean, Amanda Carter, Sarah Stewart, Tina McKenzie, Kylie Gauci, Katie Hill, Cobi Crispin, Clare Nott and Shelley Chaplin. There were three newcomers playing in their first Paralympics: Amber Merritt, Sarah Vinci and Leanne Del Toso. The Gliders had won silver at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, but had never won gold. The first stage of the Paralympic competition was the group stage, a round robin tournament. The Gliders faced a formidable task just to make the finals, as their pool included Brazil, Great Britain, Canada and the Netherlands, the last two of which had recently beaten them. After a narrow victory over Brazil and an easier one against Great Britain, the Gliders were again defeated by Canada, but they won their final match against the Netherlands to finish at the top of their pool. The Gliders went on to win in the quarterfinal against Mexico and the semifinal against the United States, but lost to Germany in the final, winning silver. ==Background== Prior to 2012, the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders, had won silver in the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, and bronze at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, but had never won gold. The official announcement of the membership of the Paralympic team was made on 5 July 2012. The team of twelve included nine veterans with 15 Paralympic Games between them: Bridie Kean, Amanda Carter, Sarah Stewart, Tina McKenzie, Kylie Gauci, Katie Hill, Cobi Crispin, Clare Nott and Shelley Chaplin. Amber Merritt, Sarah Vinci and Leanne Del Toso were newcomers competing at their first Paralympics. Kean was selected as captain.〔 The oldest team member was Amanda Carter, aged 48, who was coming back for a fourth Paralympic games having competed in the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, at which she had been sidelined by a crippling elbow injury. She returned to the Gliders' lineup in 2009. The youngest, who had not even been born when Carter had played in Barcelona, was her 19-year-old teammate Amber Merritt.〔Merritt was born in February 1993. See (【引用サイトリンク】title=Amber Merritt ) For the ages of the rest of the team, see 〕〔 British-born Merritt was originally a swimmer, but had been recruited into basketball by the Paralympic Hall of Fame coach Frank Ponta.〔 Merritt had averaged 20 points and 8.4 rebounds per game in the Gliders World Challenge series against Japan, Germany and China in Sydney in July 2012, including a game against Germany in which she scored 21 points and eight rebounds. Another young player from whom much was hoped was Cobi Crispin, whose performances in the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester and the Gliders World Challenge led to her being named Australian Women’s Wheelchair Basketball International Player of the Year. Source: Basketball Australia;〔 International Games as at 29 August 2012 from Official Results Book, p. 4152. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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