FITZPATRICK Siobhan

Wheelchair Basketball

Date of Birth: 28 Jan 1998

Age: 23

Gender: Female

Sport Class: 3.0

Place of residence : GREAT BRITAIN

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Wheelchair Basketball	Women GBR Great Britain	7

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza	Women's Preliminary Round Group A #03 GBR Great Britain 54 CAN Canada 73	Finished
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza	Women's Preliminary Round Group A #07 JPN Japan 54 GBR Great Britain 48	Finished
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza	Women's Preliminary Round Group A #24 GBR Great Britain 35 GER Germany 53	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Preliminary Round Group A #35 AUS Australia 38 GBR Great Britain 75	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Quarterfinal #55 CHN China 47 GBR Great Britain 33	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Classification Playoff 7/8 #62 ESP Spain 43 GBR Great Britain 62	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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

Occupation:

Business Management, Marketing - University of Worcester, Great Britain

Languages spoken:

Simon Fisher [national], GBR

She first tried wheelchair basketball at a 'playground to podium' event in 2010. (britishwheelchairbasketball.co.uk, 01 Sep 2018)

She was talent spotted by a wheelchair basketball coach at a 'playground to podium' event in 2010. She joined Coventry Wheelchair Basketball Academy, wanting to take up sport as she was not able to do sport at school due to insurance problems. "When I first started playing, it was the social aspect that did it for me. I just loved playing a sport with like-minded people who looked like me and shared similar experiences. For the first time, I felt like I was in an environment where I didn't struggle among my peers and it provided a great opportunity to make new friends." (swlondoner.co.uk, 08 Oct 2018; SportsAid, 04 Aug 2014; birmingham2022.com, 28 Jan 2021)

To win a medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo and to compete at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. (swlondoner.co.uk, 08 Oct 2018; insidethegames.biz, 03 Feb 2021)

Winning a silver medal at the 2018 World Championships in Hamburg, Germany. (swlondoner.co.uk, 08 Oct 2018; birmingham2022.com, 28 Jan 2021)

British wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft. (SportsAid, 04 Aug 2014)

General Interest

Type of Impairment
Cerebral Palsy (ParaSport, 26 Feb 2015)

General
RIO DISAPPOINTMENT
She says she fell out of love with the sport after not being selected for the British team at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, but has since put the disappointment in perspective. "I was balancing my A-levels [school exams] and my Rio hopes at the same time, and you can't have and succeed at both at the same time. I thought the world was going to end when I found out I wasn't going. I thought 'that's it'. For two or three months after I fell out of love with the game, I hated playing it, I didn't even play in the national league. All of a sudden I thought, 'I am only 17, it isn't the end of the world, your career is 10 to 15 years.' I think maybe if I'd gone to Rio, it wouldn't have helped me either. I wasn't ready. In my head at the time, as a naive 17-year-old, I really wanted to be there but looking back and speaking to my coaches now I'm grateful in a way that I didn't go." (swlondoner.co.uk, 08 Oct 2018)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
She has served on the Athlete's Advisory Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. (iwf.net, 21 Oct 2020)

Social Media

Legend

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

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