Mark Ideson (born April 10, 1976, in Parry Sound, Ontario) is a Canadian wheelchair curler who competed in the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi and won gold.

In 2007, the helicopter he was piloting crashed into a field near Cambridge, Ontario and he now lives with quadriplegia.

[2] Ideson is married and has two children, an 18-year-old daughter, Brooklyn, and a 15-year-old son, Myles.

After graduating university, he became a helicopter pilot and was introduced to wheelchair curling in 2010 at the age of 33.

[3] 500 metres away, Daniel Hermann, an eight-year-old boy saw this and went to his mother to call 9-1-1.