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Mandip Sehmi

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Mandip Sehmi
Birth nameMandip Singh Sehmi
Date of birth (1980-12-13) 13 December 1980 (age 43)
Place of birthRoyal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England
Occupation(s)Wheel Chair Rugby Athlete
Rugby union career
Position(s) -
International career
Years Team Apps (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]

While at the hospital, he had the opportunity to meet Bob O'Shea, a member of the Great Britain national wheelchair rugby team. O'Shea's wife was a nurse at the hospital, and he invited Sehmi to train in wheelchair rugby at a location near the hospital.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Profile - Mandip Sehmi, paralympiansclub.org.uk
  2. ^ "Mandip Sehmi". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee.
  3. ^ Mandip Sehmi athlete blog Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership for the 2012 Games, (CW2012)
  4. ^ "The game is what I care most about" Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, coloplast.com, 24 September 2010
  5. ^ C4 reveals the warm and witty side of our Paralympians, The Independent, 30 August 2010
  6. ^ Leamington Paralympian to star on Channel 4 Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, london2012.cswp.org.uk, 20 August 2010
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