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Mandip Sehmi Date of birth 13 December 1980 Mandip Sehmi (born December 13, 1980)[1] is a British wheelchair rugby player.
He was part of the Great Britain national wheelchair rugby team that came in 4th place at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China.[2]
He has two gold medals from the IWRF European Championship (2005 and 2007).
He got a spinal cord injury when he broke his neck in a car crash in the summer of 2000.[3] He spent a year recovering at the Stoke Mandeville hospital.[4][5]
At the hospital, he met Bob O’Shea of the Great Britain national wheelchair rugby team, who's wife was a nurse at the hospital. He asked Sehmi to come train wheelchair rugby in a location near the hospital.[6]
References
- ^ Profile - Mandip Sehmi, paralympiansclub.org.uk
- ^ Mandip Sehmi's profile on paralympic.org
- ^ Mandip Sehmi athlete blog, Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership for the 2012 Games, (CW2012)
- ^ “The game is what I care most about”, coloplast.com, September 24, 2010
- ^ C4 reveals the warm and witty side of our Paralympians, The Independent, August 30, 2010
- ^ Leamington Paralympian to star on Channel 4, london2012.cswp.org.uk, 20 August 2010
External links
- Official site on Twitter
- Mandip Sehmi, team-2012.com
- London 2012 mascots - Making of film 2 - with Mandip Sehmi at YouTube
Categories:- 1980 births
- Living people
- Paralympic wheelchair rugby players of Great Britain
- Wheelchair rugby players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
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