Joy Haizelden

Wheelchair Basketball

Region

Southampton
Date of Birth

01/12/1998
Classification

2.5

Bio

Joy Haizelden has been part of the senior women’s team since 2014 and after helping the team secure European bronze the following year, she made her Paralympic debut at Rio 2016.

A breakthrough year followed in 2018 for Joy and the GB Women’s team by making the World Championship final, where they gained a historic silver medal, where they were bested 56-40 in a close encounter with the Netherlands.

Joy made history at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, winning bronze with Team England in the first ever appearance of wheelchair basketball.

She was part of the team that reached the Quarter-Finals at Paris 2024 losing to Team USA 59-52.

She balances being a Paralympian with her studies at the University of Alabama studying for her PhD, alongside winning back-to-back National titles with the University team in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. When she’s not studying or playing wheelchair basketball, Joy loves the outdoors or getting into a good Netflix series. Joy also used to be able to complete a Rubix Cube in under one minute.

Major Results

2015 European Championships, Worcester, UK

Bronze

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