Michael_Shelton

Michael Shelton

Michael Shelton

British sportsman

For the American actor, socialite and activist, see Michael Dean Shelton.

Michael Shelton is a British sportsman who competed at the Summer Paralympic Games five times between 1960 and 1976 in snooker and other sports. He won six Paralympic medals, four gold, a silver and a bronze.[1] He also won gold at the 1974 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games.[2]

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Shelton was from Newstead, Nottinghamshire and had been a miner at Newstead Colliery. His back was injured in 1958 by a roof fall, and he was paralysed from the waist down.[3][4] In 1969 he married Iris Turner, who had been a nursing sister on his ward when he was in hospital.[5]

He played for the Lodge Moor Hospital paraplegic snooker team, which in 1974 was refused entry to the Sheffield and District Works Sports Association league, on the basis that they would gain unfair advantage from playing all of their fixtures at their home venue, apparently failing to acknowledge that the team would be unable to play at other venues with stairs or limited space around the tables. The team was subsequently given the chance to participate in the Sheffield Social Snooker League and play all their games at their own home base.[6]

Paralympic career

In 1960, at the inaugural Paralympic Games in Rome, Shelton won a silver medal in the snooker, he had also competed in the precision javelin throw and shot put C where he finished 41st and 24th respectively in the events.[7] He followed this up with three consecutive gold medals, at the 1964 Tokyo Paralympics,[8] 1968 Tel Aviv Paralympics,[9] and 1972 Heidelberg Paralympics.[10]

At the 1976 Toronto Paralympics, Shelton won bronze in the Men's 2-5 Snooker,[11] but took the gold medal in the lawn bowls, men's singles wh.[12]

References

  1. [1]
    "Michael Shelton". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 29 July 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Shelton and Haslam defend olympic titles". Snooker Scene. August 1976. p. 15.
  3. [3]
    "TOKYO GOLD". bufvc.ac.uk. British Universities Film & Video Council. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2016. Michael Shelton, a paraplegic miner, wins a gold medal in the paraplegic Olympic Games
  4. [4]
    "Notts. man in the Tokyo wheel-chair Olympic games". Nottingham Evening Post. 7 November 1964. p. 8.
  5. [5]
    "Went to hospital and found a wife". Nottingham Guardian. 29 September 1969. p. 5.
  6. [6]
    "Offload". Community Care. IPC Building and Contract Journals. 4 September 1974. p. 11.
  7. [7]
    "Snooker (1960)". paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 7 December 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  8. [8]
    "Snooker (1964)". paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  9. [9]
    "Snooker (1968)". paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  10. [10]
    "Snooker (1972)". paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 1 December 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  11. [11]
    "Snooker (1976)". paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  12. [12]
    "Lawn Bowls at the Toronto 1976 Paralympic Games". IPC Historical Results Archive. Retrieved 16 August 2022.


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