Competitors

  • Roelof Burghoom
    Roelof Burghoom
     
    National Team
    Netherlands

    Roelof Burghoorn was injured in a fall and was entered into an artificial coma. He woke four weeks later with a partial spinal cord injury. After three months of rehabilitation, he discovered hand cycling after a hand bike weekend at his Military Rehabilitation Centre, and was soon tackling some of the hardest climbs on the Tour de France circuit. He later took part in a hand cycling tour from Tibet to Nepal across the Himalayas. Roelof thinks it is fantastic that the Games can show the world that there is a future after a war wound, accident or illness. He hopes to demonstrate his talent on the hand bike, and win a medal for the Dutch team.

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