Mandip Sehmi (born 13 December 1980)Profile - Mandip Sehmi, paralympiansclub.org.uk 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.
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.Mandip Sehmi athlete blog , Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership for the 2012 Games, (CW2012) He spent a year recovering at the Stoke Mandeville hospital."The game is what I care most about" , coloplast.com, 24 September 2010C4 reveals the warm and witty side of our Paralympians, The Independent, 30 August 2010
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.Leamington Paralympian to star on Channel 4 , london2012.cswp.org.uk, 20 August 2010
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External links
Mandip Sehmi, team-2012.com London 2012 mascots - Making of film 2 - with Mandip Sehmi at YouTube