Jack Smith (wheelchair rugby)

Jack Smith, born Jack Dalziel Smith on 19 June 1991, is a British wheelchair rugby athlete who was a member of the Great Britain national wheelchair rugby team at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, when the team won the gold medal. In 2008, at sixteen, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma and weeks later, playing rugby for Billingham RUFC, was injured in a ruck incident, sustaining a fracture dislocation of several vertebrae and spinal cord compression that left him paralysed from the chest down. Just over a year later he was back playing rugby in a wheelchair, taking up the sport in 2009 at the North East Bulls club, and he later moved to the Leicester Tigers Wheelchair Rugby club.