THOMPSON Madeleine

Wheelchair Basketball

Date of Birth: 29 Mar 1995

Age: 26

Gender: Female

Sport Class: 4.0

Place of birth: CHESTERFIELD

Birth Country:

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
Paralympic Games
7	Women	2012	London, GBR
World Championships
2	Women	2018	Hamburg, GER
5	Women	2014	Toronto, ON, CAN
6	Women	2010	Birmingham, GBR
European Championships
2	Women	2019	Rotterdam, NED
3	Women	2017	Tenerife, ESP

Maddie (Facebook profile, 11 Aug 2018)

Cooking. (Instagram profile, 26 Apr 2020)

Occupation:

Coaching, Physical Education - University of Worcester, Worcester, GBR

Languages spoken:

Simon Fisher [national], GBR

2009 for Great Britain (thisisderbyshire.co.uk, 27 May 2010)

She attended a Sheffield Steelers training session when she was 10 years old. (ladymanners.derbyshire.sch.uk, 01 Jan 2013)

She met former British wheelchair basketball player Callum Gordon at the Bakewell Show when she was 10 years old and was invited to a Sheffield Steelers training session. She fell in love with the speed and high-impact nature of the sport. (ladymanners.derbyshire.sch.uk, 01 Jan 2013; activederbyshire.org.uk, 01 Apr 2016)

She won the Junior Disabled Sportsperson of the Year award at the 2011 BBC East Midlands Sports Awards. (derbyshiresport.co.uk, 18 Nov 2011)

General Interest

Type of Impairment
Limb deficiency (thesun.co.uk, 21 May 2012)

Impairment Details
She had her right leg amputated when she was 16 months old. (thesun.co.uk, 21 May 2012)

General
MOTIVATION
She has said her son Zachary is her biggest motivation for winning a Paralympic medal. "The thought of winning a medal in Tokyo and putting it round his neck is what keeps me going - I just think that would be the biggest thank you for all the time I've stayed away from him. On the days when you've gone out in the rain and we're pushing up and down the court, I just think he's what I want to do it for and he's what I want to aspire to. He's sacrificed so much and I've sacrificed so much time being away from him, that I really think it's a team effort when we go out there and play. It was quite tough at the start emotionally, but now he's really understanding of it and always sits there and cheers me on." (newsandstar.co.uk, 21 Oct 2019)

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Legend

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

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