Mark Ideson

Mark Ideson
Curler
Ideson in 2018
Born	(1976-04-10) April 10, 1976 (age 48) Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada
Paralympic appearances	3 (2014, 2018, 2022)
Medal record Wheelchair curling Representing  Canada Paralympic Games 2014 Sochi Mixed team 2018 PyeongChang Mixed team 2022 Beijing Mixed team World Championships 2013 Sochi Mixed team 2020 Wetzikon Mixed team 2023 Richmond Mixed team 2024 Gangneung Mixed Team

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 and he now lives with quadriplegia.^[1] He played hockey and golf before he was disabled.^[2]

Ideson is married and has two children, an 18-year-old daughter, Brooklyn, and a 15-year-old son, Myles. He went to the University of Western Ontario. He studied environmental Science there, where he met his future wife, Lara.^[2] He was also a former Mustangs Cheerleader. After graduating university, he became a helicopter pilot and was introduced to wheelchair curling in 2010 at the age of 33.

In 2007, during a maintenance flight, his helicopter crashed into a field near Cambridge, Ontario. He broke 29 bones during the process.^[3] 500 metres away, Daniel Hermann, an eight-year-old boy saw this and went to his mother to call 9-1-1. The ambulance arrived shortly after within 20 minutes. 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."^[1]

• Mark Ideson at World Curling
• Mark Ideson at the International Paralympic Committee
• Mark Ideson at the Canadian Paralympic Committee
• Mark Ideson at the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics (archived)