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Amy Conroy (born 22 October 1992) is a 4.0 point British wheelchair basketball player who represented Great Britain in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London and the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto. ==Biography== Amy Conroy was born on 22 October 1992.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amy Conroy )〕 When she was young, she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a common bone cancer that runs in her family. Chemotherapy failed to arrest the cancer and she had to have her left leg amputated. Conroy tried wheelchair basketball and found that she enjoyed the speed and aggression of the sport.〔 A 4.0 point player, she made her international debut as a teenager at the 2010 BT Paralympic World Cup. To try make her play more aggressively her teammates nicknamed her "Tiger". Later that year she participated in the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Birmingham, where Team Great Britain came sixth, its best ever placing. In 2011 they won gold at the BT Paralympic World Cup and bronze at the European Championship.〔 Conroy made her Paralympic debut at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she was Team Great Britain's top-scorer in their opening match against the Netherlands. She was top-scorer again with 22 points in the final match again Mexico, where Great Britain secured seventh place, its highest ranking at the Paralympics since the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amy Conroy - London 2012 )〕 In 2013, Conroy was part of the team that won bronze at the European Championship, and silver at the U25 European Championships.〔 The team was placed fifth at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto. In 2015, she won silver the Osaka Cup in Japan in February,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GB Women's Team announced for the Osaka Cup 2015 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Osaka Cup 2015 )〕 and was co-captain (with Laurie Williams) of the U25 team at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Great Britain Team announced for 2015 Women’s U25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships )〕 winning gold.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Great Britain crowned Women's U25 World Champions! )〕 Conroy studied social psychology at Loughborough University.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amy Conroy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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