Mandip Sehmi
| Full name | Mandip Singh Sehmi | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 13 December 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | Royal Lemington Spa, Warwickshire, United Kingdom | ||
| Occupation(s) | Wheel Chair Rugby Athlete | ||
| Rugby union career | |||
| Playing career | |||
| Position | - | ||
| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
 Great Britain |
|||
Mandip Sehmi (born 13 December 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 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]
At the hospital, he met Bob O’Shea of the Great Britain national wheelchair rugby team, whose 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
- ↑ Results for Mandip Sehmi from the International Paralympic Committee
- ↑ Mandip Sehmi athlete blog, Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership for the 2012 Games, (CW2012)
- ↑ “The game is what I care most about”, 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, 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
| ||||||||||
| ||||||||||
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, September 19, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.