Ann Wild

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is a retired

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player. She was part of Great Britain's women's wheelchair basketball team at the

1988 1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the Morris worm, 1988 Internet worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United State ...

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

and

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. After retiring from basketball, Wild attempted to qualify for

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in London in shooting, but narrowly missed out on selection for the team. In June 2010, Wild was awarded the

for services to wheelchair basketball. Wild appeared in the Paralympic special edition of

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's show

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. She also provided expert analysis for

's coverage of the women's wheelchair basketball tournament at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Wild is a professionally qualified Occupational Therapist and has returned to wheelchair basketball as a coach.

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* * Alumni of Brunel University London Alumni of the University of East London British women's wheelchair basketball players Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Great Britain Wheelchair basketball players at the 1988 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair-category Paralympic competitors Point guards Officers of the Order of the British Empire Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{paralympics-stub