Derek Whitson
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Whitson in 2015
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Born | Chatham, Ontario, Canada |
21 June 1989 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years active | 2007–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 165 lb (75 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Ice sledge hockey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Defence | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Derek Whitson (born 21 June 1989) is a Canadian sledge hockey player.
Whitson was born in Chatham, Ontario in 1989, with cerebral palsy. He joined the Canadian Sledge Hockey Team in 2007 after playing sledge hockey in the Windsor Ice Bullets sledge hockey program.[1] He was a member of the Canadian sledge hockey team that won the silver medal at the 2009 World Sledge Hockey Challenge,[1] as well as the one that competed in the 2010 Winter Paralympics.[1] He was also a member of team who won the gold medal in the 2013 IPC Sledge Hockey World Championships in Korea.[2] Whitson also is a player of football 7-a-side, in which he won a bronze medal at the 2007 Pan-American Games in Rio de Janeiro.[1] He is also an avid golfer and artist, in which he has donated pieces of his art to art auctions in support of Canadian athletes.[1]
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- 1989 births
- Living people
- Canadian ice sledge hockey players
- Paralympic ice sledge hockey players of Canada
- Ice sledge hockey players at the 2010 Winter Paralympics
- Ice sledge hockey players at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Canada