Heath Calhoun, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American alpine skier
Date of Birth: 29-Jun-1979
Place of Birth: Bristol, Tennessee, United States
Profession: alpine skier
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Heath Calhoun
- Heath Calhoun (born June 29, 1979) is an American alpine skier and veteran of the United States Army.
- A double-leg amputee due to injuries received in the Iraq War, Calhoun uses a sit-ski in competitions. Born in Bristol, Tennessee, Calhoun, a native of Grundy, Virginia, graduated from Grundy Senior High School in 1997.
- After earning an associate's degree from Southwest Virginia Community College in 1999, he joined the U.S.
- Army, as his father and grandfather had done.Upon his enlistment, he was sent to Fort Benning, Georgia, where he completed infantry, airborne, and Ranger training.
- He was sent to serve in Iraq as a squad leader in the 101st Airborne Division.
- While riding in a convoy, his Humvee was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade.
- The explosion killed one soldier and severely damaged Calhoun's legs, necessitating the amputation of both limbs above the knee.
- He spent the next nine months recuperating at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.Five months after his injury, Calhoun tried skiing for the first time at a sports clinic in Aspen, Colorado.
- In 2008, he moved to Aspen to begin training seriously for international alpine skiing competitions.
- At the 2009 U.S.
- Adaptive Alpine National Championships, he took second place in the sit-ski slalom and first in the sit-ski super G.
- He was selected for the U.S.
- alpine skiing team at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.Calhoun is a spokesperson for the Wounded Warrior Project and for Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics.
- He is also involved with the Amputee Coalition of America as a peer counselor.
- Calhoun, who currently lives in Clarksville, Tennessee, has three children; a son and two daughters.The 2010 NASCAR spring race at Richmond International Raceway has been named the "Heath Calhoun 400" in his honor, following a contest in which fans were asked to nominate and vote for military members who had performed a "selfless act".
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