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| Nationality |  Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1989-11-23)23 November 1989 (age 36) Watford, Hertfordshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair basketball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | 4.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Women's team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Coyotes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Helen Freeman (born 23 November 1989) is a4.0 point Britishwheelchair basketball player who represented Great Britain in five European championships, and at the2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, the2012 Summer Paralympics in London and the2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Helen Freeman was born inWatford on 23 November 1989.[1] A4.0 point player, she began playingwheelchair basketball with Aspire Force when she was 12. She played with the national team at the European Championships inWetzlar, Germany, in 2007, winning bronze. At age 18, she was the youngest player on the side at the2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. She went on to win bronze medals at the European Championships in 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015.[2]
She played with the British team that finished sixth at the2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Birmingham. This was the team's best ever finish, but at the2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto, Canada, they improved to finish fifth. In addition to being the tournament's third highest scorer, she was second inassists per game and sixth inrebounds.[2]
Freeman attended theUniversity of Illinois, where she played on the wheelchair basketball team. She was an AthleticAll-American in each of the five years she was there, and an Academic All-American in three of those years.[2] In May 2014 she graduated with a degree inkinesiology, and in August 2015 with aMaster of Science degree inBusiness Administration.[2] In May 2016, she was named as part of the team for the2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.[3] The team produced Britain's best ever performance, making it all the way to the semi-finals, but lost to the semi-final to the United States, and then the bronze medal match to the Netherlands.[4]
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