Marek Schneider

Impairment information

Type of Impairment

Spinal Cord Injuries

Origin of Impairment

Acquired

Classification

LW12-1

Further personal information

Occupation

Business Owner

Languages

Czech, English, German, Russian

Sport specific information

When and where did you begin this sport?

He began skiing at age three.

Why this sport?

He returned to skiing four months after his accident. "It was a trip having the same clothes, the same pants, shoes, bags, feeling the same, everything. I was in the mountains but couldn't move my legs. It was still heaven."

General interest

Nicknames

Snajcek (monoski.info, 2014)

Other sports

Before his accident he competed in snowboarding at an international level. He was on the provisional Czech national snowboard squad for the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, but due to his accident in August 1997 he was unable to compete. (monoski.info, 15 Mar 2014)

Impairment

In 1997 he was paralysed after suffering spinal cord injuries in a snowboarding accident in Austria. (euro.cz, 30 Apr 2007; snowboarding.transworld.net, 10 Feb 2000)

Other information

BUSINESS OWNER
In 2000 he founded Move Technologies, developing and manufacturing sports equipment for people with impairments. (move-t.com, 2016; euro.e15.cz, 30 Apr 2007)