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The United States men's national ice sledge hockey team represents the United States at the IPC World Championships and Paralympic Games. The team is overseen by USA Hockey. The team is one of the most successful in international para ice hockey, having won a record five Paralympic gold medals and a record six World Championship titles. [1]
The United States competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing, China which took place between 4–13 March 2022. In total, 65 athletes competed in six sports. It was the second largest delegation at the Games after the host China. Para ice hockey is represented by the most athletes, with 17. [1]
The United States national sledge hockey team played in several tournaments and friendly games to get ready for the Winter Paralympics. [6] The team played in the December 2017 World Sled Hockey Challenge in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. [6] They played in the Para Ice Hockey International Tournament in Turin, Italy in January 2018. [6]
Declan Farmer (born November 5, 1997) is an American ice sled hockey player and Paralympic gold medalist. He won a gold medal in ice sledge hockey at the 2014 , 2018 and 2022 Winter Paralympics . [ 1 ]
The U.S. qualified for sledge hockey (also known as sled hockey) at the 2010 Paralympics by winning the 2009 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] USA Hockey nominated the 15-member sledge hockey team on December 15, 2009, pending approval by the United States Olympic Committee. [ 16 ]
The team participated in its first International Paralympic Committee-sanctioned international competition, the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey Women's International Cup, in 2014. [citation needed] The tournament is now known as the Para Ice Hockey Women's World Challenge (a World Para Ice Hockey sanctioned event), [1] [2] whose inaugural year was in 2022.
Jen Lee (born July 26, 1986) is an American ice sled hockey player. He was a member of the United States national team that won gold at the 2014 , 2018 and 2022 Winter Paralympics . Career
The team then improved to a fourth-place finish in 2016, and third in 2020, and unexpectedly finished first at the 2018 Winter Paralympics. The United States was the co-host of the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville and New York. It also hosted the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta and 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City.