Lei Tianjiao

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Lei Tianjiao (born 31 October 1993) is a Chinese wheelchair basketball player. She is a member of the China women's national wheelchair basketball team and the Beijing team. She plays as a centre. She won the silver medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics,[1][2] and the gold medal at the 2018 Asian Para Games.[3]

She finished with the team fourth at the 2018 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship,[4] and sixth at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[5][6]

In November 2009 she was involved in a traffic incident that resulted in a below-the-knee amputation of her right leg. When she was 17 years old she started with wheelchair basketball after the Beijing wheelchair basketball team was recruiting new players.

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  2. "Facing failure with a smile, the Chinese women's wheelchair basketball team makes history". inf.news.
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  4. "China Women name selections for 2018 World Championships". IWBF - International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. 2018-08-07. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  5. "Team Canada Women Place Fifth at Rio 2016 Paralympic Games". Wheelchair Basketball Canada. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
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