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Born | Wallacetown, Ontario, Canada | November 12, 2000|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years active | 2018–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Ice sledge hockey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Forward | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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James Dunn (born November 12, 2000) is a Canadian sledge hockey player. As the youngest member of Canada's national para ice hockey team at the 2018 Winter Paralympics, he won a silver medal. At the 2022 Winter Paralympics, he won a silver medal in Para ice hockey. [1]
Dunn was born on November 12, 2000, in Wallacetown, Ontario, Canada [2] to parents Jeremy and Coralee Dunn. [3] On December 2, 2011, at the age of 11, he had had a biopsy taken on his right femur bone and was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. He immediately underwent chemotherapy treatments and had his leg amputated in a surgical procedure that lasted almost 16 hours. [4] While recovering in the hospital, Dunn was encouraged by Tyler McGregor to try out sledge hockey. [3]
On February 11, 2018, at the age of 15, Dunn became the youngest member named to Canada's national para ice hockey team to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics. [5] [6] With his assistant, Team Canada won a silver medal in an overtime loss to the United States. [7]
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