page_title: Shelley Chaplin
section_title: Paralympics
hierarchical_section_title: Shelley Chaplin / Basketball / Paralympics
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Australian Paralympic team member Shelley Chaplin at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London
context_page_description: Shelley Chaplin is an Australian 3.5-point player wheelchair basketball player. She participated in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, where she won a silver medal; in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, where she won a bronze medal, and the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won a second silver medal, a win she dedicated to her lifelong friend Shannon.
  Chaplin began playing wheelchair basketball in 1999, after initially contemplating developing her archery skills, and made her debut in the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League in 2000. She was part of the WNWBL championship Dandenong Rangers sides in 2011 and 2012. She was first selected for the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders, in 2001, and first represented Australia in 2002, winning a bronze medal as part of the team at the 2002 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship. She played for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign wheelchair basketball team, and was named an All-American in the 2006/07 season. Her team won the national championships in 2009.
context_section_description: Chaplin was part of the Gliders at the 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing, and 2012 London Paralympics, and won two silver medals, in 2004 and 2012, and a bronze medal in 2008 as part of the team.
  Chaplin competed with the Gliders at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.In the group stage, the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics posted wins against Brazil, Great Britain, and the Netherlands, but lost to the Canada. This was enough to advance the Gliders to the quarter-finals, where they beat Mexico. The Gliders then defeated the United States by a point to set up a final clash with Germany.  In the gold medal game, the Gliders lost 44–58, and earned a silver medal. She scored 8 points in the game, in which she played 26:58 minutes.
caption: Chaplin at the 2012 London Paralympics
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