Chris Klebl
Chris Klebl will be one of the four men representing the United States in Cross-Country in the 2010 Vancouver Paralympics. This will be his second Paralympics; he also participated in the 2006 Torino games.
Klebl was born in Düsseldorf, Germany as a US citizen, and grew up in Austria, where he enjoyed skiing and snowboarding. In 1995, a snowboarding accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. He initially took up handcycling, but then was introduced to Nordic skiing. He uses a sitski during skiing events.
Klebl has a degree in economics from Syracuse University, but currently trains full time as a Paralympic athlete. He lives in Heber City, Colorado. We wish him luck. Sit-ski events begin on Sunday, March 14th, with the men’s 15 km race.
March 10th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
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March 11th, 2010 at 1:15 am
Thanks for the feedback; my next article is on adaptive skiing, I hope it will be helpful.
I’ve been writing about the Olympics for about a year now. After the able-bodies Olympics were over, I figured, why not write about the Paralympics too? We’re still several months away from the first Youth Olympics. There are some pretty interesting people involved in the Paralympics.