![]() I am excited and proud to be representing the voice of the athletes. ![]() “Being elected as Chairperson is a huge honour to me. Jitske has already attended her first IPC Governing Board meeting. ![]() Now, she’s bringing her wealth of experience to the IPC Athletes’ Council, where she looks to build on the strong foundations set by predecessor Chelsey Gotell as the new Chairperson. Since then, she’s gone on to win bronze at both London 2012 and Rio 2016 with the Netherlands Women’s wheelchair basketball team, and most recently clinched gold at Tokyo 2020. A four-time Paralympian and three-time Paralympic medallist in wheelchair basketball, Jitske Visser was the Netherlands’ youngest Paralympian at Beijing 2008, her first Games, aged just 15.
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