Jenson Van Emburgh
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| Born | 28 May 2000 Naples, Florida, United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Belleair Beach, Florida, United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Para table tennis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability | Spinal cord injury | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | C3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Vlad Farcas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jenson Van Emburgh (born 28 May 2000) is an American para table tennis player who competes at international elite competitions. He is a Paralympic bronze medalist, Parapan American Games silver medalist and a double Pan-American silver medalist. He is the son of former tennis player and 1990 Wimbledon Championships semifinalist Greg Van Emburgh. Jenson was paralysed from the chest down following a spinal cord injury after birth.[1][2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Jenson Van Emburgh - IPTTF Profile". International Para Table Tennis Federation. 3 August 2021.
- ^ "Jenson Van Emburgh - Team USA". Team USA. 3 August 2021. Archived from the original on May 1, 2015.
- ^ "Jenson Van Emburgh signs with TopNotch Management". TopNotch Management. 13 August 2020.
Categories:
- 2000 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Pinellas County, Florida
- Paralympic table tennis players for the United States
- Sportspeople at the 2019 Parapan American Games
- Table tennis players at the 2023 Parapan American Games
- Medalists at the 2019 Parapan American Games
- Medalists at the 2023 Parapan American Games
- People with paraplegia
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- People from Belleair, Florida
- Sportspeople from Naples, Florida
- American male table tennis players
- 21st-century American sportsmen