Saul Welger
American Paralympic athlete (1931–2002)
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Saul Welger (18 April 1931 – 10 October 2002) from Brooklyn, New York, was a United States Paralympic athlete. In the 1960 Summer Paralympics and 1964 Summer Paralympics he competed in multiple sports, including wheelchair basketball.
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Born | 18 April 1931 |
| Died | 10 October 2002 (aged 71) |
Spouse | |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics Wheelchair basketball |
Welger competed at the 1958 and 1959 Stoke Mandeville Games. In the 1960 and 1964 Paralympics he was a member of the winning United States wheelchair basketball team. In 1976, Welger was inducted into the NWBA Hall of Fame.[1] He hired Junius Kellogg as the first Black coach in wheelchair basketball.[2]
Welger married West German wheelchair athlete Christa E. Zander in 1963; they had two children, born in 1966 and 1970. Saul Welger died in 2002. After Christa Welger's death in 2019, the Christa & Saul Welger Foundation was established, to continue their work in supporting accessible sports opportunities for physically disabled youth.[3]
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