WHEELER Joshua

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Paralympic Games
2	Mixed	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
World Championships
3	Mixed	2018	Sydney, NSW, AUS
3	Mixed	2014	Odense, DEN

Wheels (rugbychairs.com, 2015)

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA

Wife Stephanie

English, Spanish

University of Arizona Wildcats [Tucson, AZ, USA]

James Gumbert [national], USA

2011 for United States (2014wrwc.dhif.dk, 2014)

During his career he has suffered a number of broken bones and injuries to his hands. (tucsonlocalmedia.com, 05 Feb 2020)

National Championships [USA] (tucsonlocalmedia.com, 05 Feb 2020)

He began playing wheelchair rugby in 2007 at the Utah Scorpions club in the United States of America. (sltrib.com, 04 Jul 2012; usawheelchairrugby.com, 2011)

Another wheelchair rugby player invited him to a practice session. "Also, one of my therapists gave me 'Murderball' [the 2005 wheelchair rugby documentary] so it was basically the stuff that I learned in the video and I figured it would be fun. So after I went to a practice event, I fell in love with it. As I kept playing, I kept getting better and better." (tucsonlocalmedia.com, 05 Feb 2020; parkcity.tv, 18 May 2009)

To compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (tucsonlocalmedia.com, 05 Feb 2020)

He trains for up to seven hours a day, six days a week, with the national team at the US Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO, United States of America. (tucsonlocalmedia.com, 05 Feb 2020)

US sprinter Carl Lewis. (Facebook profile, 29 Sep 2016)

"If you don't have the physical and mental side, you're not going to be good at it. It takes you from going through an accident and being in a wheelchair to having friends who are also doing the same. You can learn so many things about how to make your life better through the sport." (tucsonlocalmedia.com, 05 Feb 2020)

He was named the Best 2.5 Class Player at the 2016 Paralympic Games Qualification Tournament in Paris, France, and the 2015 World Challenge in London, England. (iwrf.com, 17 Apr 2016, 17 Oct 2015)