Charlotte Moore (wheelchair basketball)

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Charlotte Moore
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Personal information
NationalityFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
Born (1998-09-13) 13 September 1998 (age 25)
Sport
CountryGreat Britain
Sport Wheelchair basketball
Disability class 1.0
EventWomen's team
ClubCoventry Wheelchair Basketball Academy
Medal record
Wheelchair basketball
U25 Women's World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Beijing, China Women's wheelchair basketball
European Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2013 Frankfurt, GermanyWomen's wheelchair basketball
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2015 Worcester, United KingdomWomen's wheelchair basketball
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2017 Tenriffe, SpainWomen's wheelchair basketball
Women's World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Hamburg, Germany Women's 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.

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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 Basketball Championships, where Team Great Britain won the silver medal. [1]

As a wheelchair racer, Moore has won four Virgin London wheelchair mini-marathons. [2] She also plays wheelchair tennis. [1] She was chosen to carry the London 2012 Olympic Torch when the torch relay passed through Warwick on 1 July 2012. [1]

In 2013, Moore was part of the team that won bronze at the European Championship, and silver at the U25 European Championships. [1] The team came fifth at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto. She won silver at the Osaka Cup in Japan in February 2015, [3] [4] and played in the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing, [5] winning gold, [6] and defeated France to take bronze in the 2015 European Championship. [7] In May 2016, she was named as part of the team for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. [8] The British team produced its best ever performance at the Paralympics, 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. [9]

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