HEBERT Matthieu

Classification
A (IWAS, 16 Aug 2021)

Type of Impairment
Leg length difference (paralympic.ca, 29 Aug 2016)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (paralympic.ca, 29 Aug 2016)

Impairment Details
An injury at age 13 resulted in a leg length difference. (paralympic.ca, 29 Aug 2016)

General
BREAK FROM FENCING
He took up able-bodied fencing as a child before giving up the sport after an injury at age 13, which caused him pain when he fenced. In 2012 he had surgery that reduced the pain and enabled him to return to fencing, first in able-bodied competitions before learning about wheelchair fencing. "If I had known [about wheelchair fencing] 20 or 30 years ago, I would have done more of that as a youngster, I would have been very fast." (paralympic.ca, 29 Aug 2016; torontoobserver.ca, 13 Sep 2016)

FURTHER EDUCATION
After graduating from the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada, with a doctorate in theoretical physics in 1995, he obtained a post-doctorate at the College of France in Paris in 1997. (paralympic.ca, 29 Aug 2016; fencing.ca, 01 Sep 2016)

OCCUPATION
He has worked as a natural language processing researcher within the field of technological research engineering. (fencing.ca, 01 Sep 2016; paralympic.ca, 29 Aug 2016)