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'''Evelyn van Leeuwen''' (born 15 May 1972) is a Dutch [[wheelchair basketball]] player from [[Leiden]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.medischcontact.nl/nieuws/laatste-nieuws/artikel/ik-ga-altijd-voor-het-hoogst-haalbare.htm|title=‘Ik ga altijd voor het hoogst haalbare’|website=www.medischcontact.nl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://teamnl.org:443/sporters/5611-evelyn-van-leeuwen|title=Evelyn van Leeuwen|website=teamnl.org}}</ref> She competed at four Paralympic Games between 1996 and 2016. She won the silver medal at the [[1996 Summer Paralympics]]<ref name="auto"/> and 20 years later the bronze medal at the [[2016 Summer Paralympics]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/rio-2016/eng/zb/engzb_wheelchair-basketball-athlete-profile-nwbw400ned01-netherlands.htm|title=Wheelchair Basketball - Netherlands|website=www.paralympic.org|access-date=2020-07-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.paralympic.org/evelyn-van-leeuwen|title=Evelyn van Leeuwen - Wheelchair Basketball {{!}} Paralympic Athlete Profile|website=International Paralympic Committee|language=en|access-date=2020-07-19}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Wheelchair Basketball {{!}}Netherlands VS Great Britain{{!}}Women's - Bronze Match Rio 2016 Paralympic Games|url=https://www.paralympic.org/video/wheelchair-basketball-netherlands-vs-great-britainwomen-s-bronze-match-rio-2016-paralympic|access-date=2020-07-19|language=en}}</ref>
In 2000 she was a professional player in [[Badajoz]]. She also played at the [[2000 Summer Paralympics]], [[2004 Summer Paralympics]] and [[2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship]]. Due to pregnancy she couldn’t compete at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
==Life==
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At the begin of her wheelchair basketball career Van Leeuwen was studying medicine. Later, also next to wheelchair basketball, she was a [[general practitioner]],<ref name="auto"/> but she became a paediatrician in 2012 so that she could then work part-time.<ref name=medi>{{Cite web|title=‘Ik ga altijd voor het hoogst haalbare’|url=https://www.medischcontact.nl/nieuws/laatste-nieuws/artikel/ik-ga-altijd-voor-het-hoogst-haalbare.htm|access-date=2021-07-11|website=www.medischcontact.nl|language=nl}}</ref>
In 2016 she returned to the national team and she competed and won a team bronze medal at the [[2016 Summer Paralympics]] in Rio. She was the oldest player in the team but there were two others also in their 40s.<ref name=medi/>
In 2000 she was given the compliment of becoming a professional player in [[Badajoz]] in Spain. It was a team of men and she was asked to join them and she stayed for a year.<ref name=medi/>
==Private life==
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