[3][4][5] Monique Van den Bosch was diagnosed with cancer due to paraplegia when she was just 14 years old.

[6] Monique Kalkman clinched a gold and a bronze medal in the women's table tennis competitions as a part of the 1984 Summer Paralympics.

She then competed at the 1988 Summer Paralympics as a wheelchair tennis player and claimed a silver medal in the women's singles though the event was a demonstration sport at the 1988 Summer Paralympics.

Monique Van den Bosch continued her medal hunt at the Summer Paralympics as she claimed gold medals in the women's singles and women's doubles partnering with Chantal Vandierendonck at the 1992 Summer Paralympics.

In 1997, she was advised by the doctors to play golf as she had paraplegia disease.