Jens Kask
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Jens Kask (20 April 1966 – 15 January 2011)[1] was a Swedish Paralympic ice sledge hockey player.[2] He won one gold medal and two bronze medals for Sweden,[3] and was captain of the Swedish team for many years. He served as his country's flag bearer at the 2010 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony.[4]
When Kask was ten years old, he climbed up on the roof of a parked train, where he got an electric shock. As a result, he had to have both his legs amputated.[5]
He died in his home outside of Stockholm in January 2011, at the age of 44.[5][6]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Medlem avliden Archived 11 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine (Swedish), Brf Ekebo, 20 January 2011
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Archived 23 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Swedish handicapped sports profile Archived 27 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b Jens Kask är död: "En av de bästa" (Swedish) Aftonbladet, 20 January 2011
- ^ Death of Paralympian Jens Kask, International Paralympic Committee (IPC), 24 January 2011
External links
[edit | edit source]- Jens Kask at the International Paralympic Committee Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Jens Kask at Handikappidrott.se (archived) (in Swedish)
- pictures at shif.se
- pictures at talleesavage.wordpress.com
Categories:
- 1966 births
- 2011 deaths
- Paralympic sledge hockey players for Sweden
- Swedish sledge hockey players
- Ice sledge hockey players at the 1994 Winter Paralympics
- Ice sledge hockey players at the 1998 Winter Paralympics
- Ice sledge hockey players at the 2002 Winter Paralympics
- Ice sledge hockey players at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
- Ice sledge hockey players at the 2010 Winter Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Sweden
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Sweden
- Medalists at the 1994 Winter Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1998 Winter Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in sledge hockey
- Swedish amputees
- 20th-century Swedish people
- 21st-century Swedish people
- Swedish winter sports biography stubs
- Sledge hockey biography stubs
- European Paralympic medalist stubs
- Swedish sportspeople stubs