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Sledge hockey is an adaptation of ice hockey designed for players who have a physical disability. Invented in the early 1960's at a rehabilitation centre in Stockholm, Sweden, and played under similar rules to standard ice hockey, players are seated on sleds and use special hockey sticks with metal "teeth" on the tips of their handles to navigate the ice.
Paul Rosen is a Canadian ice sledge hockey goalie and motivational speaker from Thornhill, Ontario. Rosen suffered a leg injury during a hockey game as a youth, and the resulting damage, infections and pain to his leg plagued him for years until his lower leg was amputated at age 39. During rehabilitation, Paul turned his sights towards sledge hockey, made the Canadian National Sledge hockey team, and participated in the 2002 and 2006 Winter Paralympics. Rosen was the oldest rookie in the history of the Paralympic Winter Games when he made his debut at 41. At the 2006 Games in Torino, Rosen and the Canadian team won the sledge hockey gold medal.
Jean Labonté is a Canadian ice sledge hockey player.
The 4th IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships were held between March 29, 2008 and April 5, 2008 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States, at the New England Sports Center. Organized by Massachusetts Hockey in co-operation with US Paralympics, around 200 athletes from ten countries participated in the 10-team round robin tournament which featured two divisions: six teams in group A and four teams in group B.
The 5th IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships took place in early 2009. The competition was divided into two tournaments, with Tournament B held from 15 to 21 March in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and Tournament A held from 9 to 16 May in Ostrava, the Czech Republic. A total of thirteen teams participated; eight in Tournament A and five in Tournament B. The top six teams from Tournament A automatically qualified for the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The remaining two teams from Tournament A and the top two teams from Tournament B will play in the 2009 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey Paralympic Qualifier to determine who will take the remaining two Paralympic slots.
The ice sledge hockey competition of the 2010 Winter Paralympics was held at the UBC Winter Sports Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from 13 March to 20 March 2010.
Sledge hockey tournaments have been staged at the Paralympic Games since 1994 in Lillehammer.
Todd Nicholson, is a member of the 2010 Paralympic Sledge Ice Hockey team. This is the fourth Paralympic games that Nicholson has participated in. He announced his retirement from the Canadian ice sledge hockey team on September 7, 2010. Nicholson now serves on the International Paralympic Committee Governing Board as the Athletes' Representative.
Hervé Lord is a Canadian sledge hockey player. He was born in Saint-Pamphile, Quebec, Canada.
The Canada men's national ice sledge hockey team represents Canada at international competition. The team has been overseen since 2003 by Hockey Canada, a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. From 1993 until 2003, the team was an associate member of Hockey Canada.
Bradley Bowden is a Canadian ice sledge hockey and wheelchair basketball player. Born in Missisauga, Ontario, Bowden lives with sacral agenesis. He began playing ice sledge hockey in 1997, aged 13, for the Kitchener Sidewinders. At the age of 15, he was selected for Canada's national team. In 2003, he was named to the men's national wheelchair basketball team which eventually won gold in the 2004 summer Paralympic games in Athens, Greece. He is one of the few Paralympic athletes to win both a Paralympic gold medal in both summer and winter games.
Gregory Westlake is a Canadian ice sledge hockey player. Both his legs were amputated when he was 18 months old; because of a congenital defect he had no tibia in one leg, and no fibula in the other. At age six he appeared in a public service announcement for The War Amps non-profit organization on playing safe, and is still close to the organization that provides support and services to all Canadian amputees.
Billy Bridges is a Canadian ice sledge hockey and wheelchair basketball player. Born in Summerside, he has spina bifida. On July 1, 2011, Bridges married former Olympic women's ice hockey player Sami Jo Small.
Sledge hockey classification is the classification process for people who play ice sledge hockey. The classification system is governed by the International Paralympic Committee Ice Sledge Hockey.
Canada competed at the 1994 Winter Paralympics in Lillehammer, Norway from March 10 to 19, 1994. 34 athletes competed in all four sports: alpine skiing, ice sledge hockey, ice sledge speed racing, and Nordic skiing.
Ben Delaney is a Canadian ice sledge hockey player. He won a bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia.
Tyler McGregor is a Canadian sledge hockey player.
The Canada national women's ice sledge hockey team is the ice sledge hockey team representing Canada. The team participated in its first IPC-sanctioned international competition in 2014.
The Australian men's national para ice hockey team is the ice sledge hockey team representing Australia. The team made its debut at the 2018 World Para Ice Hockey Championships in Finland.
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References
- ↑ "Jean Chan-Chiang". Canadian Paralympic Committee . Archived from the original on 2016-08-14. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
- ↑ "J. C. Chan". Paralympic Games . Retrieved 2019-12-06.
- ↑ "Canada 2010 Paralympic Hockey Team: Stats by Year - Other Stats" (PDF). Hockey Canada . Retrieved 2019-12-06.
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