WIMMENHOEVE Xena

Wheelchair Basketball

Date of Birth: 14 May 2000

Age: 21

Gender: Female

Sport Class: 4.0

Place of residence : ARNHEM

Residence Country:

Netherlands

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Wheelchair Basketball	Women NED Netherlands	1

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza	Women's Preliminary Round Group B #02 NED Netherlands 68 USA United States 58	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Preliminary Round Group B #15 CHN China 45 NED Netherlands 38	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Preliminary Round Group B #19 NED Netherlands 109 ALG Algeria 18	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Preliminary Round Group B #38 ESP Spain 24 NED Netherlands 63	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Quarterfinal #53 NED Netherlands 82 JPN Japan 24	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Semifinal #63 GER Germany 42 NED Netherlands 52	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Gold Medal Match #71 NED Netherlands 50 CHN China 31	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location
World Championships
1	Women	2018	Hamburg, GER
European Championships
1	Women	2019	Rotterdam, NED
1	Women	2017	Tenerife, ESP

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Communications, Marketing - Young Talent Academy, Nijmegen, NED

Languages spoken:

Dutch, English, German, Spanish

SC DeVeDo [Ermelo, NED]

Gertjan van der Linden [national], NED

2017 for Netherlands, European Championship in Tenerife, Spain (sitness.tdebv.nl, Sep 2017)

National league:

Eredivisie [NED] (journalistiekwindesheim.nl, 27 May 2019)

She began playing wheelchair basketball in early 2017. (sitness.tdebv.nl, Sep 2017)

She was originally involved in able-bodied handball before switching to wheelchair basketball. "After I had my operations due to cancer I tried to play handball again, but it wasn't possible. Then I was invited to a Paralympic talent day where I discovered the sport and was instantly hooked. I didn't want to play sport initially in a wheelchair as I felt it would limit me, but I found it super exciting and very cool." (sitness.tdebv.nl, Sep 2017)

To compete at the Paralympic Games. (sitness.tdebv.nl, Sep 2017)

Her mother. (sallandcentraal.nl, 11 Sep 2019)

General Interest

Type of Impairment
Limb deficiency (sitness.tdebv.nl, Sep 2017)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (sitness.tdebv.nl, Sep 2017)

Impairment Details
In 2012, while on holidays in Italy, she discovered a lump on her upper left leg which turned out to be bone cancer. She was also diagnosed with a tumour in her lung. After a course of chemotherapy and operations [partial removal of her left leg] she had to learn to walk again. (sitness.tdebv.nl, Sep 2017; sallandcentraal.nl, 11 Sep 2019)

Milestones

In September 2019 she received the inaugural Kei van Wijhe Award in Wijhe, Netherlands, for her contribution to wheelchair basketball. (sallandcentraal.nl, 11 Sep 2019)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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