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| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 9 October 1975 Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2007 | Solna Vikings | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | KFUM Järfälla | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Solna Vikings | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Stockholmspolisens IF | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | KFUM Järfälla | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2016 | Akropol BBK | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | AIK Basket | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Cecilia Helena Ferm (born 9 October 1975) is a Swedish deaf female basketball player.[1] She has represented both national and deaf basketball teams. Ferm has participated at the Deaflympics on 5 occasions since making her debut in the 1993 Summer Deaflympics.[2]
She was the key member of the Swedish deaf basketball team that won silver medals at the 1997,[3] 2001[4] and 2005[5] Deaflympic events. In her last Deaflympic event, she was able to claim the gold medal for Sweden in the basketball for the first time in Deaflympic history after a stunning victory over favourites USA and it ended the gold medal jinx for Sweden.[6][7]
She won the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award in 2000 and in 2004 for her outstanding performance in the deaf basketball competitions including the deaflympic basketball.[8][9] Cecilia Ferm was also nominated for the Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award by the ICSD in 1998, 1999, 2002 and in 2007.
She too has played for some elite basketball club teams such as Solna Vikings, Akropol and Nerike Basket. Cecilia Ferm is currently playing for the Swedish club side, AIK Basket.[10][11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Cecilia Ferm | SBBF". basketligandam.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-11-24.
- ^ "Cecilia Ferm | Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Archived from the original on 2017-07-11. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
- ^ "Women's basketball| 1997 Summer Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
- ^ "Women's basketball| 2001 Summer Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
- ^ "Women's basketball| 2005 Summer Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
- ^ "The Swedish Sports Gala 2002 was held in the Globe on 14 January 2002. Below is a list of all of the winners and nominees" (PDF). idrottsgalan.se. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
- ^ "Women's basketball| 2009 Summer Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
- ^ "ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year 2000 | Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Archived from the original on 2017-07-09. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
- ^ "ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year 2004 | Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Archived from the original on 2017-07-09. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
- ^ "Cecilia Ferm Basketball Player Profile, AIK Basket Solna, News, Damligan stats, Career, Games Logs, Best, Awards – eurobasket". www.eurobasket.com. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
- ^ Sweden, Sveriges Television AB, Stockholm. "De tävlar i Mästarnas mästare 2017". svt.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-11-24.
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