Lindsay Frelink
Appearance
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Nationality | Dutch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 6 August 1999 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Wheelchair basketball | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability | spinal cord injury | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | 2.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Only Friends | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lindsay Frelink (born 6 August 1999) is a Dutch wheelchair basketball player (2.0 disability class) and a member of the Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team. She won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, with the national team.[1]
Life
[edit]Frelink was born with spina bifida. Frelink studied graphic design at Mediacollege Amsterdam. She lives in Heerhugowaard.[1]
Frelink started with wheelchair basketball when she was 12 years old. She made her debut for the national team in 2017 and won in that year the gold medal at the European Championships in Tenerife.[1]
She competed at the 2018 World Championship, and 2017 and 2019 European championships . [1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Wheelchair Basketball: FRELINK Lindsay". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 6 September 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
External links
[edit]- Lindsay Frelink at the International Paralympic Committee
- Lindsay Frelink at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
- Lindsay Frelink on Instagram
Categories:
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Dutch women's wheelchair basketball players
- Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for the Netherlands
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball
- Paralympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
- People with spina bifida
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- 21st-century Dutch sportswomen