Evelyn van Leeuwen: Difference between revisions

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{{Short description|Dutch wheelchair basketball player}}

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{{family name hatnote|van Leeuwen|Leeuwen|lang=Dutch}}

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== Sports career ==

From a young age, van Leeuwen was a low-level competitive [[speed skater]]. When she was 18 years old she crashed during a competition in [[Leiden]]. There wasn’twasn't a proper safety boarding, causing her to become [[paraplegia|paraplegic]]. After two years of recovery, she started to again become involved with sports. She started with wheelchair basketball and after contacting the national coach, she was able to become part of the national team.<ref name="auto"/>

In 2000, van Leeuwen was a professional player in [[Badajoz]] in western Spain while she was conducting research.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Velthuis|first=Rob|date=20 January 2001|title='Ik sta op de wereld om gelukkig dood te gaan'|url=https://www.trouw.nl/gs-b19716c1|access-date=12 July 2021|website=Trouw|language=nl-NL}}</ref> It was a team of men and she was asked to join them and she stayed there for a year.<ref name=medi/> She also played at the [[2000 Summer Paralympics]], [[2004 Summer Paralympics]] and [[2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship]]. Due to pregnancy, she couldn’tcouldn't compete at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.

At the beginning of her wheelchair basketball career, van Leeuwen was studying medicine. Later, also next to her wheelchair basketball activity, 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=11 July 2021|website=www.medischcontact.nl|language=nl}}</ref>

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[[Category:1972 births]]

[[Category:Living people]]

[[Category:Paralympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands]]

[[Category:Paralympic silver medalists for the Netherlands]]