Our athletes Helen Freeman

Helen Freeman is a versatile athlete with close to two decades of experience. Her first GB call up was in 2007 for the European Championships, and would make her Paralympic debut the next year at Beijing 2008 aged only 18.

Watford native was the GB Women’s leading points’ scorer at London 2012, within the competition’s top 10 players for points per game, and in the top three for assists per game.

The 4.0 player has thrice assisted the GB Women to their highest ever placing at a World Championships: earning the sixth spot in 2010 (Birmingham, UK) before building to an historical fifth place at the 2014 Championships in Canada and securing the silver medal at the 2018 World Championships.

At the 2014 World Championships, Helen was the competition’s third top scorer; second in assists per game; sixth in rebounds per game, and had one of the highest free throw percentages in the tournament.

The following year, at the 2015 European Championships, Helen was statistically the tournament’s most efficient player.

In addition to her success on the senior international circuit, the University of Illinois graduate (major: Kinesiology) is also a highly decorated junior having won several medals with GB U22 Team and captaining the GB Women’s U25 Team to World Bronze in Canada in 2011 and silver at the 2013 U25 European Championships, where she was named to the All-Star team.

Whilst at the University of Illinois, Helen combined academic and athletic endeavours with great success, graduating with an Undergraduate degree in Kinesiology in May 2014 with High Honors. Helen then went on to completed a Master of Science degree in Business Administration the following year, graduating in August 2015. She was an Athletic All-American all five years as well as an Academic All-American for three years.

GB Representation and Results
2007 European Championships, Wetzlar (Bronze)
2008 U22 European Championships, Adana
2008 Paralympic Games, Beijing
2009 European Championships, Stoke Mandeville (Bronze)
2010 U23 European Championships, Milan (Silver)
2010 World Championships, Birmingham
2011 U25 World Championships, Ontario
2011 European Championships, Nazareth (Bronze)
2012 Paralympic Games, London
2013 U25 European Championships, Stoke Mandeville (Silver)
2013 European Championships, Frankfurt (Bronze)
2014 World Championships, Toronto
2015 European Championships, Worcester (Bronze)
2016 Paralympic Games, Rio
2017 European Championships, Tenerife (Bronze)
2018 World Championships, Hamburg (Silver)
2019 European Championships, Rotterdam (Silver)
2020 (played in 2021) Paralympic Games, Tokyo
2021 European Championships, Madrid (Silver)
2022 World Championships (played in 2023), Dubai
2023 European Championships, Rotterdam (Silver)
2024 Paralympic Games, Paris