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Jagtar Sehmi b.1956
Mandip Sehmi and Andy Barrow play in the GB wheelchair rugby squad.
Sehmi broke his neck in car crash that left him paralysed from the chest down. During rehabilitation at Stoke Mandeville he was introduced to wheelchair rugby. He currently trains with Storm in London and this year played with Arizonan team Phoenix Heat, competing in the US wheelchair rugby league.
Sehmi’s mother Jagtar Sehmi was born in Punjab, India and moved to the UK to marry in the 1970s. Barrow formally played rugby union, but broke his neck during a game aged seventeen and took up wheelchair rugby. He has been a member of the national squad since 1999. As team captain, Barrow competed together with Sehmi in Beijing in 2008.
‘We are athletes first, disabled second and not just guys in chairs having a go.’ Andy Barrow
