Marion de Groot
Ahead of the 1964 Summer Paralympics she trained with a group of 45 people weekly in Amersfoort at the “Juliana van Stolbergkazerne”. She practiced table tennis, archery, javelin throw and wheelchair basketball. Initially, she would only participate in table tennis. She was scared to start swimming because she was paralyzed. However, she tried it and was able to swim to she decided also to compete in para-swimming. From that training group, 11 athletes were selected for the Paralympics.