Clare Griffiths

Clare Griffiths (born 18 September 1979) is a 1.5 point British wheelchair basketball player who represented Great Britain at the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Paralympic Games.

Biography Clare Strange was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, on 18 September 1979, the daughter of Jeremy and Caroline Strange. She played county hockey, and represented her school in the National Indoor Championships. She also rode horses, She was introduced to wheelchair basketball during rehabilitation at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. A year later, she made her international debut as a 1.5 point player for Team Great Britain at the Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Sydney, Australia. She also earned seven bronze medals at European championships, and played professional wheelchair basketball in Italy with Sardinia Sassari, one of the first British women to do so. The British team produced its best ever performance at the Paralympics, making it all the way to the semi-finals, but lost to the semi-final to the United States, and then the bronze medal match to the Netherlands.

Achievements 1998: Seventh at Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (Sydney, Australia) 2014: Fifth at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championship (Toronto, Canada)