| 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]