Neil Simpson (alpine skier)
Appearance
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Born | Banchory, Scotland | 8 December 2001||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Alpine skiing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability | Visually impaired | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | B3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Neil Douglas Hamilton Simpson MBE is a British visually impaired para alpine skier who competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics.
Career
[edit]Simpson made his debut at the 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships where he won a silver medal in the super combined.[1]
He competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics and won a gold medal in the super-G and a bronze medal in the super combined.[2][3][4]
Simpson was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to skiing.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Neil Simpson". paralympic.org. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ^ "Skiing siblings Neil and Andrew Simpson enjoying red-hot alpine connection". largsandmillportnews.com. 5 March 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ^ Burke, Patrick (6 March 2022). "Simpson earns super-G gold for Britain on day of firsts at Beijing 2022". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ "Alpine Skiing Results Book" (PDF). 2022 Winter Paralympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2022. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "No. 63714". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 June 2022. p. B24.
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- British male alpine skiers
- Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2022 Winter Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Great Britain
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Great Britain
- Paralympic medalists in alpine skiing
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- 21st-century British sportsmen
- 2001 births
- Paralympic medalist stubs