Alexi Salamone

Alexi Salamone (born 17 June 1987 in Bryansk, Russia, Soviet Union) is a Paralympian ice sledge hockey player from the United States.

[1] Salamone was born near Chernobyl, the site of a nuclear accident that took place 14 months prior to his birth.

[2] Orphaned, he was adopted by the Salamones, a couple from Buffalo, New York, and moved to the United States at the age of six.

[4] At the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy, Salamone was part of the American team that won the bronze medal.

[5] As a part of the United States national team he won a bronze medal at the 2008 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships, held in Marlborough, USA and won a gold medal at the 2009 Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic.