Nikko Landeros
American ice sledge hockey player (born 1989)
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Nikko Landeros (born April 28, 1989) is an ice sled hockey player and paralympic freestyle skier from the United States.
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| Born | August 28, 1989 San Francisco, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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He took part in the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, where USA won gold. They beat Japan 2–0 in the final. He was also on the team USA in the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, which won gold by beating Russia 1–0 in the final.
He and his best friend Tyler Carron had an accident when they were 17. Both lost their legs. His father is a native of Mexico and his mother is from Milan, Italy.[1]
