Stephen Murray (BMX rider)

Stephen Murray (BMX rider)

Stephen Murray (born 9 January 1980 in Newcastle, England) is a former BMX Dirt rider and Preston Grange Charva. On Friday 22 June, 2007 at the Dew Action Sports Tour BMX Dirt Finals in Baltimore, Maryland, Stephen Murray took a catastrophic fall attempting a double back flip on the final jump in the dirt section. He received career ending injuries to his spinal cord and vertebrae and is paralyzed below the neck.

Recent reports have shown that he can shrug his shoulders, and move his index, and thumb fingers. [cite web
url = http://www.fatbmx.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3490
title = Stephen Murray Update Part 2
accessdate = 2007-10-23
date= 2007-10-21
work = Fat BMX
publisher = fatbmx.com
]

Murray was a seven-time expert British champion and six-time UK National champion before the age of 16. During his professional BMX career, Murray was known for his double back flips, 360 back flips, and turndown back flips. He won the gold medal in BMX Dirt in the Summer 2001 X Games and won gold medals in BMX Dirt at the Gravity Games in back to back years (2001 and 2002). He was nominated for ESPN 'BMX rider of the year'.

Stephen Murray is married and has two sons. He resides in Riverside, California.

Since his June 2007 accident, Stephen has stayed strong throughout his recovery and believes he will one day walk again.

Since the accident Stephen is now working closely with the doctor that treated famous quadriplegic Christopher Reeve. Stephen now has limited movement in his toes and is also gaining more movements in his hands and hopes to move to a wheelchair that he can hand operate opposed to the one he currently has that he operates with his head.

ee also

* BMX

External links

* [http://www.stephenmurraybmx.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.23mag.com/gens/murray.htm Online photo-biography]
* [http://www.astdewtour.com/modules.php?name=Athletes&mv=ShowAthlete&AthleteID=38&subnav=Athletes&SportID=5 AST Dew Tour site biography]
* [http://www.stephenmurray.org/ Stephen Murray Benefit]

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