Joy Haizelden

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Joy Haizelden
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Joy Haizelden at the 2024 Paralympics
Personal information
NationalityFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
Born (1998-12-01) 1 December 1998 (age 25)
Sport
CountryGreat Britain
Sport Wheelchair basketball
Disability class 2.5
University team University of Alabama (2022 - present)
ClubCoventry Wheelchair Basketball Academy
Medal record
Wheelchair basketball
U25 Women's World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2015 Beijing, ChinaWomen's wheelchair basketball
European Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2015 Worcester, EnglandWomen's wheelchair basketball
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2017 Tenriffe, SpainWomen's wheelchair basketball
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Rotterdam, Netherland Women's wheelchair basketball
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2021 Madrid, Spain Women's wheelchair basketball
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Rotterdam, Netherland Women's wheelchair basketball
Women's World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Hamburg, Germany Women's wheelchair basketball

Joy Haizelden (born 1 December 1998) is a 2.5 point British wheelchair basketball player who was the youngest player to represent Great Britain at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto. She also went to Paris to compete at the 2024 Paralympics.

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Biography

Joy Haizelden was born on 1 December 1998. [1] Joy was abandoned outside an orphanage in China. She was adopted by a British couple, Jim and Margaret Haizelden, who took her to live in Southampton, in Hampshire, in 2005. She was a student at The Kings School. [1] Joy could not participate in physical education, so Jim went looking for ways to keep her fit and active. A friend invited him to bring Joy to his wheelchair basketball club.

Haizelden is classified as a 2.5 point player. She made her international debut in the Standard Life Head to Head series against the Netherlands in 2013. This was followed by the U25 European Wheelchair Basketball Championships, where Team Great Britain won the silver medal. [1] She was named the Peter Jackson Young Female Player of the Year at The Lord's Taverners National Junior Championships in July 2013, [2] and was part of England South's team at the Sainsbury 2013 School Games, winning bronze. [1]

At the age of 15, she was the youngest player chosen to represent Great Britain at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto. [1] Team Great Britain came fifth, its best ever result at the World Championship. [3] The following year, she was part of Team Great Britain at the Osaka Cup in Japan in February, [4] winning silver, [5] and at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing in July, [6] winning gold. [7] The senior team then defeated France to take bronze in the 2015 European Championship in Worcester. [8] In May 2016, she was named as part of the team for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. [9] 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. [10]

Achievements

NWBA intercollegiate

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