Chris Klebl
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
5 January 1972 Düsseldorf, Germany |
|||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Canmore, Alberta | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
|
Medal record
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Christopher "Chris" Klebl (born 5 January 1972, in Düsseldorf, Germany) is an American-Canadian cross-country skier who represented the United States at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Paralympics before winning a gold medal for Canada at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
Klebl was born in Düsseldorf, Germany as an American citizen. He grew up in Austria and moved to the United States in 1987. In 1995 he suffered back injury during a snowboarding accident that left him paralysed below the waist. He worked as a massage therapist in Kauai, Hawaii and then in the software industry in California before moving back to Colorado and taking up sit-skiing.
He has a degree in economics from Syracuse University.
Klebl competes in the LW11 para-Nordic skiing classification using a two ski sit-ski and was introduced to the sport by Monica Bascio.
He began competing for the US para-nordic skiing team and represented them at the 2005 IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships held in Fort Kent, Maine, United States where he finished 17th in the 10 km and 18th in the 5 km.
Kebl was selected for the United States team for the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy. In the men's 1 × 3.75 km + 2 × 5 km relay he finished sixth alongside teammates Steve Cook and Michael Crenshaw. In the individual events he finished 23rd in the 5 km, 18th in the 10 km, and 11th in the 15 km.
...
Wikipedia