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, and SC DeVeDo in Ermelo. She won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. 
She also became world champion in 2018 and European champion in 2019. 
She plays in the Dutch Eredivisie national league, with her club SC DeVeDo.
Life​.
Van der Sprong was born in 1999 in Gouda. She did before her impairment hockey, roller skating and speed skating. After a field hockey training she couldn't feel her left leg and foot anymore. She had an inflammation that damaged nerves on her spinal cord and resulted that she had 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.