Declan Farmer

Declan Farmer

Farmer in 2015
Personal information
Born (1997-11-05) November 5, 1997
Tampa, Florida, United States
Years active 2007–present
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight 145 lb (66 kg)
Sport
Country  United States
Sport Ice sledge hockey
Position Forward
Medal record
Men's Ice sledge hockey
Paralympic Games
2014 Sochi

Declan Farmer (born November 5, 1997) is an ice sledge hockey player and Paralympic gold medalist. Competing at the 2014 Winter Paralympics, he won a gold medal in the men's ice sledge hockey tournament.[1] A bilateral amputee, he has played sledge hockey since the age of nine after first trying it out in Clearwater, Florida.[2] He attended Berkeley Preparatory School in Tampa and will attend Princeton University in the fall of 2016. In addition to the United States men's national team, he has played on the Spacecoast Hurricanes, Tampa Bay Lightning, and Florida Bandits sledge hockey clubs. He made the American national team at the age of 14 in 2012.

In the 2013 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships, he finished first on the American team in scoring, with eight points.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.teamusa.org/Athletes/FA/Declan-Farmer
  2. ↑ http://www.teamusa.org/Athletes/FA/Declan-Farmer
  3. ↑ http://www.usahockeymagazine.com/article/2013-06/future-now-declan-farmer-amazing-sled-hockey-performance
  4. ↑ http://olympics.usahockey.com/page/show/890370-declan-farmer


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