Amanda Yan

Amanda Yan (born May 22, 1988) is a Canadian 3.0 point wheelchair basketball and wheelchair tennis player who won a gold medal at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto. She was also a national champion in shot put in 2012.

Biography Amanda Yan was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, on May 22, 1988. She attended Burnaby Central Secondary School, where as a teenager she was an active athlete who played basketball, volleyball and track and field athletics. She then became a student at Simon Fraser University. — and fall off a cliff. She suffered horrific injuries, dislocating two vertebrae and fracturing three, as well as fracturing her right femur and right wrist, and suffering brain, lung and kidney damage. She was airlifted to hospital, where she was informed that there was little chance that she would ever walk again. Months of rehabilitation at the GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre in Vancouver followed.

During rehabilitation Yan was introduced to the sport of wheelchair basketball.

In addition to playing wheelchair basketball, Yan plays a number of other sports, including swimming, handcycling, wheelchair racing, wheelchair tennis, and track and field, in events such as shot put, javelin and discus. She was a national champion in shot put in 2012, and also came second in women's wheelchair tennis (singles and doubles) at the national championship that year.