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2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship
The 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship was held at the China Disability Sports Training Centre in Beijing from 30 June to 6 July 2015. Six nations competed: Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Great Britain and Japan. The event took the form of a Round-robin tournament, with each team playing all the other teams once. The top four teams then went into semi-finals, while the bottom two played each other for world ranking. The winners of the semi-finals faced each other in the final, while the losers played for bronze. The championship was won by Team Great Britain. Australia came second and China third. Competition This was the second time the Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship was held. The first time was the 2011 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in St. Catharines, Canada, in 2011. The Championship was hosted by the China Administration of Sports for Persons with Disabilities (CASPD) and the National Paralympic Commit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Disability Sports Training Centre
The China Administration of Sports for Persons with Disabilities (CASPD, zh, 中国残疾人体育运动管理中心) is a public institution of the Central Government of China, and is affiliated with the China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF). It is estimated that there are 85 million people with disabilities in China. The CASPD is responsible for the administration of disability sports in China. Its work includes developing sporting standards, carrying out sports research, undertaking sports drug testing, and directing sports training programs. It also manages the China Disability Sports Training Centre (CDSTC) in Beijing. China Disability Sports Training Centre The CDSTC opened on 28 June 2007. It was the first facility in China entirely devoted to disability sports training, and the largest of its kind in the world. It is some in area. There are apartments for accommodating athletes, along with supporting structures such as a cafeteria and recreation areas. There are res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Dodd
Hannah Dodd (born 27 April 1992) is an Australian Grade IV equestrian and 1.0 point wheelchair basketball player who represented Australia in equestrian at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, coming 11th and 12th in her events. Switching to wheelchair basketball, she made her debut with the national team at the Osaka Cup in February 2015. In 2008, Dodd was the Australian national Grade IV para-equestrian champion. She was runner-up in 2009, and won the Australian national championships again in 2011, along with the Oceania Championships and the National Titles team events. By 2012, she was the top-ranked Australian competitor in her event and class. After the London Paralympics, Dodd took up wheelchair basketball. She started playing for the Sydney University Flames in the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League in 2013, made her debut with the national team at the Osaka Friendship Games in Osaka in February 2015, winning bronze, and was part of the Under 25 team a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Morrow
Katie Morrow (born 20 September 1999) is a 4.5 point British wheelchair basketball player who was the youngest player selected for Team GB wheelchair basketball team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. Biography Katie Morrow was born on 20 September 1999. She has an older brother. She is from County Antrim in Northern Ireland. She attended Cullybackey College. As a swimmer, she broke the Irish record in her age group in the freestyle relay event in 2012. She was introduced to wheelchair basketball in 2013 by Phil Robinson, the Wheelchair Basketball Performance Officer at Disability Sport Northern Ireland. She soon played in the Lord's Taverners Junior League, the BWB National Leagues, the National Junior Championships, the Celtic Cup, and Sainsbury's School Games. , she is a 4.5 point player, who plays for the Sheffield Steelers in the Women's League and Knights WBC in the National League. Morrow made her debut with the senior national team at the Continental C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurie Williams (wheelchair Basketball)
Laurie Anne Williams (born 4 February 1992) is a 2.5 point British-Irish wheelchair basketball player who participated at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, and the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, representing Great Britain. Early life and education Williams was born on 4 February 1992 at Wythenshawe Hospital and grew up in Altrincham. At the age of eighteen months, an undiagnosed viral infection resulted in her developing motor neuropathy in her trunk and legs. She attended Altrincham Grammar School for Girls and later completed further education at Loreto College in Manchester. Following the completion of her A-Levels, Williams enrolled at Loughborough University and proceeded to graduate with a first class honours Bachelor of Science degree in social psychology. Immediately following her studies at Loughborough, Williams pursued postgraduate education at the University of Alabama, graduating with a Master of Science de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Carrigill
Sophie Carrigill (born 19 January 1994) is a 1.0 point British wheelchair basketball player who represented Great Britain at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto and the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Biography Sophie Carrigill was born on 19 January 1994. She attended Wakefield Girls' High School, where she played netball, hockey, and tennis. During a family holiday in the United States in 2010, she was a passenger in a car that crashed into a tree. Despite being the only person in the vehicle wearing a seat belt, she spent two months in hospital, where many of her organs were damaged and some removed including her gall bladder. Her kidney was damaged, and she fractured her T6 thoracic vertebrae, leaving her paralysed from the waist down. She subsequently spent two months in rehabilitation in the spinal unit at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield. Carrigill took up playing wheelchair basketball. Within a year of playing her first gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Moore (wheelchair Basketball)
Charlotte Moore (born 13 September 1998) is a wheelchair racer who has won four Virgin London wheelchair mini-marathons, a wheelchair tennis player and a 1.0 point wheelchair basketball player who represented Great Britain at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto and the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg. Biography Charlotte Moore was born on 13 September 1998, and began playing wheelchair basketball when she was eight years old. She is classified as a 1.0 point player. She played for the Coventry Ladies AllStars (formerly West Midlands AllStars), and the Coventry Wheelchair Basketball Academy (CWBA) First and Second Teams in the British Wheelchair Basketball National League. She was named the Peter Jackson Young Female Player of the Year in 2012, and made her international debut in the Standard Life Head to Head series against the Netherlands in 2013 when she was 14. This was followed by the U25 European Wheelchair Bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annabel Breuer
Annabel Breuer (born 23 October 1992) is a wheelchair fencer and 1.5 point wheelchair basketball player. She has played for SKV Ravensburg and Sabres Ulm in the German wheelchair basketball league. In December 2012 she was contracted to play for first division club RSV Lahn-Dill as well as Sabres Ulm. She has also played the national team, with which she won two European titles, was runner-up at 2010 World Championships, and won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. After the London Games, President Joachim Gauck awarded the team Germany's highest sporting honour, the ''Silbernes Lorbeerblatt'' (Silver Laurel Leaf). Biography Annabel Breuer was born on 23 October 1992. She lives with her three siblings, her parents and her dog in Birkenhardt, a small town in Swabia roughly halfway between Lake Constance and Ulm. She became a paraplegic as a result of an automotive accident when she was a child. Breuer started playing wheelchair fencing recreationally. She wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Dahle
Linda Dahle (born 8 November 1991) is a German 4.5 point national wheelchair basketball player who plays for Hannover United, and for the German national team. She won a bronze medal at the U25 European Wheelchair Basketball Championships in August 2013, where she was the team's top scorer with 42 points. She made her senior national team debut in June 2014, winning silver at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto. Biography Linda Dahle was born in Düsseldorf on 8 November 1991. When she was 16, she was forced to give up playing basketball due to severe cartilage damage in her left foot. She then took up wheelchair basketball, with a classification of 4.5 point, the lowest level of disability. She is studying social work degree at the University of Nijmegen. Dahle moved to Cologne to play with its RBB 99ers. She also coached the U15 girls in Düsseldorf. In 2011, she played with the German team at the U25 Women's World Cup in St. Catharines, On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Groß
Barbara Gross (german: Barbara Groß, born 20 November 1993) is a 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player, who played for the German national team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, winning silver. President Joachim Gauck awarded the team Germany's highest sporting honour, the ''Silbernes Lorbeerblatt'' (Silver Laurel Leaf). Biography Barbara Gross was born in Gießen on 20 November 1993. She is classified as a 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player. She played for the Under 25 national team at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing in 2015, and then the senior team at the European championships (Worcester). In 2016, 2017 and 2018, she played for the University of Alabama in the United States. Her 2018 team includes fellow German national players Katharina Lang and Selena Rausch, and Canadian national players Arinn Young and Rosalie Lalonde. The Alabama team won its fifth national collegiate championship in March 2017, with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Fürst
Laura Fürst (born 24 April 1991) is a German 2.0 point national wheelchair basketball player who plays in the wheelchair basketball league for RBB Munich, and for the German national team, with which she won silver at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto. Biography Laura Fürst was born in Munich on 24 April 1991. On 8 March 2008, while she was a 16-year-old exchange student at Petoskey High School in Petoskey, Michigan, Fürst was operating a snowmobile on a trail near Pleasantview Township, Michigan, when she lost control and crashed into a tree. Suffering serious injuries, she was taken to Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey, and then to the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Among her injuries was a shattered vertebra that caused paralysis in her legs, which rendered her an incomplete paraplegic. Returning to Germany, Fürst went to the in Murnau am Staffelsee, where she w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalie Lalonde
Rosalie Lalonde (born March 27, 1997) is a Canadian 3.0 point wheelchair basketball player who won a silver medal at the 2015 Parapan American Games in Toronto. In 2016, she was selected as part of the team for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro Biography Rosalie Lalonde was born in Montreal, Quebec, on March 27, 1997. From ages 0-18, she lives in Saint-Clet, Quebec. A 3.0 point player, she began playing wheelchair basketball in 2011. Initially a reluctant player, she began playing locally, then for the Quebec provincial junior team, and then for the senior provincial women's team. In 2013, she played for the national side in the U21 3-on-3 women's wheelchair basketball at the Youth Parapan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, winning silver. In 2015, she joined the U25 national women's team, which played in the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing, China in June and July 2015, and then made her debut with the senior team for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erica Gavel
Erica Gavel (born May 25, 1991) is a Canadian 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player who won a silver medal at the 2015 Parapan American Games in Toronto. In 2016, she was selected as part of the team for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. Biography Erica Gavel was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, on May 25, 1991. She attended Carlton Comprehensive High School, where she was a promising basketball player. She went on to play for the University of Saskatchewan Huskies. Towards the end of her first year, she suffered a serious knee injury that required surgery. Like most young and fit people, she recovered quickly, and was ready to play again at the start of her second year. She played for most of the season but then tore her cartilage in the same knee. This benched her for 18 months. She had no sooner recovered than she injured the knee a third time. This time it required microfracture surgery. There was no cartilage between her femur and tibia. Doctors told her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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