Rie Odajima

Rie Odajima (born 1 April 1989) is a Japanese wheelchair basketball player (2.5 wheelchair basketball classification). She is a member of the Japan women's national wheelchair basketball team and her club Wing. She competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

In 2011, when Odajima was 22 years old, she had an accident that damaged the spinal cord. As a result she has an impairment in her right leg and the core of the body. When she was in high school she suffered from an eating disorder. Her father suggested to try a Para sports. In 2013, Odajima went to a wheelchair basketball class at a rehabilitation centre, that was given by a former Paralympian. After she started playing basketball, she overcome the eating disorder, as she thought she had to eat well for playing basketball. She won with the team the silver medal at the 2018 Asian Para Games in Jakarta. She was awarded the "Three Point Award" at the 2018 and 2020 Emperor's Cup. She competed at the 2019 Asia Oceania Championships.

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Category:1989 births
Category:Japanese wheelchair basketball players
Category:Living people