Mark Ideson

Mark Ideson (born April 10, 1976, in Parry Sound, Ontario) is a Canadian wheelchair curler who competed in the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi and won gold. He is married and has two children. He now resides in London, Ontario. In 2007, the helicopter he was piloting crashed into a field near Cambridge, Ontario, causing injuries that resulted in quadriplegia. He played hockey and golf before he was disabled.

Personal

Ideson is married and has two children, a daughter, Brooklyn, and a son, Myles. He went to the University of Western Ontario. He studied Environmental Science there, where he met his future wife, Lara. 500 metres away, Daniel Hermann, an eight-year-old boy saw this and went to his mother to call 9-1-1. An ambulance arrived within 20 minutes. In 2014, Ideson said "I had rehearsed for seven years what I was going to say to a kid that essentially saved my life. I could never really put it to words."