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Full name | Samuel Grewe |
Nickname | Sam |
Nationality | American |
Born | Goshen, Indiana, U.S. | June 10, 1998
Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) |
Weight | 165 lb (75 kg) |
Sport | |
Country | United States |
Sport | Paralympic athletics |
Disability | Osteosarcoma |
Disability class | T63 |
Event | High Jump |
Club | Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association (GLASA), Chicago, Illinois |
Coached by | Kyle Mishler (personal) Jeremy Fischer Calvin Sullins |
Medal record |
Samuel Grewe (born June 10, 1998) is an American Paralympic high jumper. Grewe contracted osteosarcoma on Christmas Eve of 2011 at the age of 13, which ultimately resulted in the amputation of his right leg via a unique procedure called rotationplasty. Grewe jumped for the University of Notre Dame Track and Field Team, where he studied Pre-Med and resided in Fisher Hall on campus. [1] [2] As of 2024, Grewe attends the University of Michigan Medical School. Outside of athletics, Grewe is also a motivational speaker, including a TED Talk that he delivered in February of 2022.
Samuel (Sam) Grewe was born and raised in Middlebury, IN. He was a student in the Middlebury Community Schools system and attended Northridge High School, where he graduated in the class of 2017. During the basketball season of his 7th grade year, he began to experience a sharp pain in his right knee, which he originally attributed to growing pains. However, on Christmas Eve of 2011, the pain in his knee was diagnosed as osteosarcoma. He underwent 21 sessions of chemotherapy to treat the disease. He also chose to have his leg amputated via a rare procedure called rotationplasty. This choice was based on his belief that it would give him the best chance of returning to sports.
Sam began competing in high jump in 2014, two years after losing his leg to cancer. He began his track & field career as a member of the Northridge High School Track & Field team. He quickly found success in this event, earning a spot on the Doha 2015 World Championships team, [3] where he earned his first World Championship title at the age of 17. In the following year, he competed at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games, [4] where he earned a Silver Medal. After graduating from high school in 2017, he attended the University of Notre Dame, where he competed on their varsity track & field team. [5] In 2017, Sam won his second World Championship title at the London 2017 World Championships.
After graduating from the University of Notre Dame in 2021, Sam attended the University of Michigan Medical School, where he competed for the University of Michigan Adaptive Sports and Fitness Team. Shortly after, Sam competed at his second Paralympic Games at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, where he earned a Gold Medal, jumping a height of 1.86m. [6]
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