Stephen Welch
 Welch (right) shaking hands with David Hall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality |  United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | July 28, 1972 Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Coached by | Dan James | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Stephen Welch (born July 28, 1972) is an American wheelchair tennis player.
Biography
Welch was born in Fort Worth, Texas. Since he was four-years-old he was into a competition. By the age of eight he was diagnosed with Legg–Calvé–Perthes syndrome. He won 100 major titles since 1992, which includes three U.S. Open titles. He also won 5 National championships in the National Wheelchair Basketball Association and also three MVP awards.[1] He attended Paralympic games starting from 1996, but only won one silver medal for singles and one silver for doubles in the 1996 Summer Paralympics and won gold for singles and another bronze for doubles at the Sydney Paralympic Games. He also participated at the 2011 Parapan American Games where he won gold medal for doubles and a bronze one for singles. In 1996 and 2000 he played wheelchair basketball for the Olympics but didn't get any medals for it.[2]
References
- ^ "Stephen Welch". Team USA. United States Olympic Committee. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ "Stephen Welch". Team USA. United States Olympic Committee. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
External links
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- 1972 births
- Living people
- Paralympic gold medalists for the United States
- Paralympic silver medalists for the United States
- Paralympic bronze medalists for the United States
- American men's wheelchair basketball players
- Paralympic wheelchair tennis players of the United States
- Wheelchair tennis players at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair tennis players at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Sportspeople from Fort Worth, Texas
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in wheelchair tennis
- American basketball biography, 1970s birth stubs
- American tennis biography stubs