Ebbe Blichfeldt
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Ebbe Blichfeldt is a Danish wheelchair racer living in Switzerland who has competed internationally in the Paralympic Games and other para-athletic events, in the T54 classification for athletes with spinal cord injuries who compete in wheelchairs. He also works as an occupational therapist.[1][2]
Blichfeldt was paralysed at age 13 as a side effect of cancer,[2][3] and began wheelchair racing in 2001.[1] His competitions have included competing for Denmark at the 2008 Summer Paralympics,[1][3] and for Denmark at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, where he qualified as the only Danish wheelchair racer,[2] and earned big cheers from the crowd despite finishing last in his heat in the 5000m race.[4] He placed third in the wheelchair category of the Dublin Marathon in 2018,[5] and second in the 2018 Rome Marathon.[6] He has held the Danish records for 1500m and 5000m wheelchair racing.[2]
Blichfeldt moved to Switzerland in 2009,[1] and trains at the Swiss Paraplegic Centre in Nottwil along with other parathletes including champion wheelchair racer Marcel Hug.[7] He is sponsored by OA Opbyg A/S, an axle construction firm in Karlslunde.[8]