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| Born | 18 September 2001 Portsmouth, England | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wheelchair basketball | |||||||||||||||||
| Disability | Hereditary spastic paraplegia | |||||||||||||||||
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Jade Atkin (born 18 September 2001) is a British wheelchair basketball player and a member of Great Britain women's national wheelchair basketball team. She represented Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.
Career
[edit]Atkin represented England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and won a bronze medal in the inaugural wheelchair basketball tournament.[1][2]
She represented Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in wheelchair basketball.[1] During the quarterfinals against the United States, she recorded a team-high 15 points in a 59–52 loss.[3]
In July 2026, she competed at the 2026 Commonwealth Games and won a gold medal in the wheelchair basketball tournament.[4]
Personal life
[edit]Atkin was diagnosed with Hereditary spastic paraplegia.[5]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Portsmouth pair Jade Atkin and Maddie Martin set to make Paralympic debut". The News. 11 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2026.
- ↑ "Jade Atkin has inclusivity on her mind at the Commonwealth Games". ealingtimes.co.uk. 1 August 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2026.
- ↑ "'We're going for gold in LA' – Portsmouth's wheelchair basketballer Jade Atkin after Paris Paralympics agony". The News. 5 September 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2026.
- ↑ "Atkin leads England to Commonwealth wheelchair basketball gold". teamengland.org. 27 July 2026. Retrieved 30 July 2026.
- ↑ Carter, Simon (2 August 2022). "'I hope there's more focus on wheelchair basketball so little kids who are either newly disabled, or have been disabled their whole lives, can understand how great it is' – Portsmouth's Jade Atkin". The News. Retrieved 30 July 2026.
External links
[edit]- Jade Atkin at the International Paralympic Committee
- Jade Atkin at ParalympicsGB
- Jade Atkin at Team England
- Jade Atkin at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games
- Jade Atkin at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Jade Atkin on Instagram
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- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Commonwealth Games competitors for England
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- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in basketball
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in basketball
- Basketball players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Basketball players at the 2026 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
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- 21st-century British sportswomen
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