Steve Arsenault
Canadian ice sledge hockey player
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Stephen Arsenault (born September 6, 1988) is a Canadian ice sledge hockey player.
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Arsenault in 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
September 6, 1988 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 167 lb (76 kg; 11 st 13 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Defence | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2004–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Arsenault was born in Hamilton, Ontario to Joe and Jill Arsenault. He has avascular necrosis of the femoral head.[1]
He began his sledge hockey career in 2004 in Edmonton with the Paralympic Sports Association Dogs. He also played for the Edmonton Impact sledge hockey team. He took a hiatus from sledge hockey from 2007 to 2010, a timespan in which his mother died and his father was seriously injured in a workplace accident which resulted in amputation of a leg.[1][2]
With the Canada men's national ice sledge hockey team, He won a gold medal at the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships in 2011, 2013, 2017 and a silver in 2012.[1][3] He also competed in the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympics with the Canadian national team, winning a bronze in the sledge hockey tournament.[4]
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