Liam Hickey
Appearance
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Born | March 25, 1998 St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador | (age 26)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Liam Hickey (born March 25, 1998, in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian Sledge Hockey player.
Career
[edit]After strong showings early in his career, he was offered an invite to join Team Canada's training camp for their National Sledge Hockey Team in Calgary, Alberta, where he played forward and was the lone person from Newfoundland invited.[1] He was a member of the silver medal-winning Canadian team of para ice hockey at the 2018 Winter Paralympics. Hickey also competed for Canada at the 2015 Parapan American Games in wheelchair basketball as well as the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[2] He was born without a femur in his right leg.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Pardy, Pam (September 6–15, 2015). "Liam Hickey: All the right moves". The Newfoundland Herald. 69 (36): 36.
- ^ "Paralympic Canada profile". Archived from the original on 2018-04-20. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
- ^ "CBC article". Archived from the original on 2018-05-03. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
External links
[edit]- Liam Hickey - Canada - Para Ice Hockey at the International Paralympic Committee
- Liam Hickey - Para Ice Hockey at the Canadian Paralympic Committee
Categories:
- 1998 births
- Living people
- Canadian men's wheelchair basketball players
- Canadian sledge hockey players
- Paralympic sledge hockey players for Canada
- Paralympic silver medalists for Canada
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Para ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
- Para ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2022 Winter Paralympics
- Sportspeople from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Paralympic medalists in sledge hockey
- Sportspeople at the 2015 Parapan American Games
- 21st-century Canadian sportsmen
- Canadian Paralympic medalist stubs
- Sledge hockey biography stubs