Sylvana van Hees
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| Nationality | Dutch | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 April 1993 Roosendaal, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair basketball | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | 1.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Arrows '81 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sylvana van Hees (born 4 April 1993) is a Dutch wheelchair basketball player (1.5 disability class) and a member of the Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team and Rotterdam Basketball. She won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, with the national team.[1]
Career
After a clinic she started with playing wheelchair basketball in
When she was two years old, she contracted meningitis and both her legs and her right forearm had to be amputated. She studied leisure management at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences.[1]
She plays in the Dutch Eredivisie national league, with her club Rotterdam Basketball.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d "Wheelchair Basketball: van HEES Sylvana". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 6 September 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
External links
- Sylvana van Hees at the International Paralympic Committee
- Sylvana van Hees at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
- Sylvana van Hees on Instagram
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