Mandip Sehmi (born 13 December 1980)[1] is a British wheelchair rugby player.
| Birth name | Mandip Singh Sehmi | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 13 December 1980 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Wheel Chair Rugby Athlete | ||||||||||||||||
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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 three gold medals from the IWRF European Championship (2005, 2007 and 2015).
Sehmi was involved in a car crash in the summer of 2000, which resulted in a broken neck and a permanent spinal cord injury.[3] He spent a year recovering at the Stoke Mandeville hospital.[4][5]
While at the hospital, he had the opportunity to meet Bob O'Shea, a member of the Great Britain national wheelchair rugby team. O'Shea's wife was a nurse at the hospital, and he invited Sehmi to train in wheelchair rugby at a location near the hospital.[6]
References
edit- ^ Profile - Mandip Sehmi, paralympiansclub.org.uk
- ^ "Mandip Sehmi". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee.
- ^ Mandip Sehmi athlete blog Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership for the 2012 Games, (CW2012)
- ^ "The game is what I care most about" Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, coloplast.com, 24 September 2010
- ^ C4 reveals the warm and witty side of our Paralympians, The Independent, 30 August 2010
- ^ Leamington Paralympian to star on Channel 4 Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, london2012.cswp.org.uk, 20 August 2010
External links
edit- Mandip Sehmi on Twitter
- Mandip Sehmi at the International Paralympic Committee
- Mandip Sehmi, team-2012.com
- London 2012 mascots - Making of film 2 - with Mandip Sehmi at YouTube
- Portraits of Mandip Sehmi at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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