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Scott Winkler
Track & Field
Birthplace: Grovetown, Georgia
Current Residence: Birmingham, Alabama
Winkler was exposed to discus and shot put at the 2006 USOC Paralympic Military Sports Camp and has quickly experienced international success. He is the current world record holder in the F54 shot put.
Winkler joined the Army a few years after high school and became a service technician. In 2003, Winkler fell off an ammo truck in Tikrit, Iraq, resulting in paralysis. Winkler is a participant in the Veterans Paralympic Performance Program (VP3).
Veterans Paralympic Performance Program (VP3)
The VP3 is the newest part of the USOC Paralympic Military Programs, supporting talented, committed, severely injured veterans in their effort to represent the United States of America at a Paralympic Games. Through VP3, these veteran-athletes demonstrate to themselves and others the will and abilities that inspire others with physical disabilities and, indeed, all Americans. Lakeshore Foundation is supporting VP3 by providing two resident-athletes the opportunity to live and train here full-time as they prepare for the 2008 Paralympic Games. Both athletes, Carlos Leon and Scott Winkler, compete in the discus and shot put events.
Courtesy U.S. Paralympics
