Clare Griffiths (basketball) explained

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Clare Griffiths
Club:Coyotes
Birth Date:18 September 1979
Birth Place:High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Height:167cm (66inches)
Weight:56kg (123lb)
Country:Great Britain
Sport:Wheelchair basketball
Event:Women's team
Disability Class:1.5

Clare Griffiths (born 18 September 1979) is a 1.5 point British wheelchair basketball player who represented Great Britain at the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Paralympic Games.

Biography

Clare Strange was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, on 18 September 1979,[1] [2] the daughter of Jeremy and Caroline Strange.[3] She played county hockey, and represented her school in the National Indoor Championships. She also rode horses, representing southern England at the Mounted Games in 1996 and 1997.[2] In 1997, she broke her back in a fall from a horse, rendering her paraplegic.[4] She was introduced to wheelchair basketball during rehabilitation at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. A year later, she made her international debut as a 1.5 point player for Team Great Britain at the Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Sydney, Australia.

Since then, Strange, who married Daniel Griffiths on 13 July 2013 at St Mary's Church in Radnage, and is now known as Clare Griffiths, has represented Britain at the 2000 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Paralympic Games. In London in 2012, she was co-captain of the team, along with Louise Sugden. In Rio de Janeiro in 2016, although no longer captain, she was, at 36, the oldest member of the side.[5] She also earned seven bronze medals at European championships, and played professional wheelchair basketball in Italy with Sardinia Sassari, one of the first British women to do so. She also earned a bachelor's degree in Sport and Exercise Science from Loughborough University in 2003.

In May 2016, she was named as part of the team for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.[6] 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.[7]

Achievements

Notes and References

  1. News: Clare Strange - Paralympics GB - London 2012 Olympics . https://web.archive.org/web/20120212043250/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/paralympic-sport/paralympics-gb/8725588/Clare-Strange-Paralympics-GB-London-2012-Olympics.html . dead . 12 February 2012 . . 13 September 2016 .
  2. Web site: Athlete Bio: Griffiths, Clare . . 13 September 2016 .
  3. News: Daniel Griffiths Clare Strange : Wedding . Lancaster Guardian . 2 August 2013 . 13 September 2016 .
  4. News: A Strange guide to wheelchair hoops . . 13 September 2016 .
  5. News: Rio Paralympics: Clare Griffiths set for fifth Games . 13 May 2016 . 13 September 2016 .
  6. Web site: British women's wheelchair basketball team named for Rio . 13 May 2016 . . 6 September 2016.
  7. News: University of Worcester-based GB women's wheelchair basketball team miss out on bronze medal to dominant Dutch in Rio Paralympics . . Geoff . Berkeley . 17 September 2016 . 18 September 2016 .
  8. Web site: Clare Griffiths . British Wheelchair Basketball . 11 September 2016 .
  9. Web site: Germany earn 10th women's European Wheelchair Basketball Championship title as hosts Britain win men's gold . 6 September 2015 . Inside the Games . 9 September 2015 .

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