Josh Dueck

[1] He won a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in the men's slalom sit-ski event.

He became disabled when he overshot a demonstration jump in March 2004, breaking his back and left him as a T11 classification.

As a sit-skier, he has also won gold in mono skier X at the 2011 Winter X Games, bronze at the 2012 Winter X Games, and has won multiple IPC World Cup podiums and is the 2009 world downhill champion.

In February 2012, Dueck became the first sit-skier to complete a backflip on snow,– earning him world-wide notoriety and an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

He is an advocate for workplace safety and accessibility in sport, and in 2013 gave a TED Talk about his experiences.