Élodie Tessier (born March 14, 1996) is a Canadian 2.5 point wheelchair basketball player. She was part of the Under 25 national team at the

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, and the senior Canadian national women's team at the Americas Cup in

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, Colombia, in 2017, and the Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in

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in 2018.

Biography

Tessier was born in

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, on March 14, 1996. Her legs did not grow normally; she is only tall and uses a wheelchair. As a child, she was soon physically overtaken by her twin sister; but in high school, another girl in a wheelchair introduced her to wheelchair basketball. Élodie soon became the sportier of the two sisters. Classified as a 2.5 point player, Tessier was part of the Canadian junior team at the

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(where she also represented Canada in the Under 21 3-on-3 competition) and then the

. In 2017, she won the Canadian Wheelchair Basketball League (CWBL) Women's National Championship in Montreal, Quebec, with the ''Gladiateurs de Laval''. In the same year she was part of the senior national team at the Americas Cup in

, Colombia, where Team Canada was placed first. In April 2018, she was part of Team Quebec at the CWBL Women's National Championship in Richmond, British Columbia. Team Quebec came second, and she was named as an All-Star. In August 2018, she was part of Team Canada at the

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